Quote #14

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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  3. Fermat was my childhood passion.
  4. However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
  5. 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.
  6. Always try the problem that matters most to you.
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