"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."

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"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."

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"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."

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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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"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years."

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"It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day."

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"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."

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"We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention."

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