The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

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

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

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

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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

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

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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

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Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

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