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.

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

Fermat couldn't possibly have had this proof.

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

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

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