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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem -- Fermat's Last Theorem.

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  1. I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own.
  2. 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.
  3. I loved doing problems in school.
  4. I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
  5. I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
  6. I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
  7. 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.
  8. Fermat couldn't possibly have had this proof.

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