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I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
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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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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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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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I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
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Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.
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I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep.
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