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"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest."
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"I loved doing problems in school."
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"Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one."
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"Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge."
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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
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