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

Fermat couldn't possibly have had this proof.

But what has made this problem special for amateurs is that there's a tiny possibility that there does exist an elegant 17th-century proof.

Young children simply aren't interested in Fermat. They just want to hear a story and they're not going to let you do anything else.

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.

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