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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
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The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
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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 know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
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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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I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
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There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
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It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
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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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However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
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I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
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Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
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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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