I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.


A reply to Olbers' 1816 attempt to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956) Edited by J. R. Newman

Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such...

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such...

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such...

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such...