Top 34 Fermat Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Fermat

#1. A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. 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. []

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#2. We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Alan Perlis

#3. When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg?

Constance Bowman Reid

#4. Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hilbert

#5. The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

Barry Mazur

#6. Fermat said he had a proof.

Andrew Wiles

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

Andrew Wiles

#8. Fermat wrote in the margin: "I've discovered a truly wonderful proof for this argument. Unfortunately, this margin is too narrow to contain it." Two

Peter Hoeg

#9. It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and
integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes,
were introduced into science by the investigations of Kepler,
Descartes, Cavalieri, Fermat and Wallis ...

Sophus Lie

#10. Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.

Thomas Little Heath

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

Andrew Wiles

#12. Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p.

Sylvia Nasar

#13. This was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with foreign languages.

John McWhorter

#14. But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre De Fermat

#15. In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre De Fermat

#17. I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Pierre De Fermat

#18. I felt and feel no solidarity with people who think their salvation makes them more worthy than others.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#19. Meet the big while it is small.

Laozi

#20. When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.

Rigoberta Menchu

#21. When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

Jacques Pepin

#22. When you grow up in life and you're poor, and because you're an athlete or you got rich overnight in music, unless you have access to financial advice or for the transition or matriculation of that process, then of course, you're going to go broke.

Steve Stoute

#23. It is impossible to separate any power except a square into 2 powers with the same exponent. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain

Pierre De Fermat

#24. This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

Michael Strahan

#25. It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

Rene Descartes

#26. I will share all of this with you whenever you wish.

Pierre De Fermat

#27. I never knew what to say."
"Really? You seem comfortable enough with words."
"I have a formal and aesthetic relationship to words.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#28. Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

Steve Jobs