I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

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.

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.

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the hi…

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in div…

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.