Fermat-s-last-theorem Quote by Constance Bowman Reid

“When { Born and Heisenberg and the Göttingen theoretical physicists} first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble…

— Anonymous

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that…

— David Hilbert

“Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact” with extraterrestrials. I am invited to “ask them anything.” And so over the…

— Carl Sagan

“I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I…

— Anonymous

“Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about…

— Carl Sagan

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.

— John von Neumann

In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream.

— Yakir Aharonov

No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be…

— Hermann Weyl

“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties by means…

— Paul Joseph Cohen

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

— John von Neumann

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are…

— Alonzo Church

Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off…

— George Polya