"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem -- Fermat's Last Theorem."

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“But what has made this problem special for amateurs is that there's a tiny possibility that there does exist an elegant 17th-century proof.”

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