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

Fermat said he had a proof.

— Andrew Wiles

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Fermat’s last theorem,”

— Charles Krauthammer

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

— Andrew Wiles

“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems can easily…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations…

— Barry Mazur

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with…

— Adrien-Marie Legendre

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

— Andrew Wiles

“This is not mathematics, it is theology. (On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)”

— Paul Gordan

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

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

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