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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.

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

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

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

I loved doing problems in school.

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

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

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

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

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.

The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

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

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

Fermat said he had a proof.

I never use a computer.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

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