Fermat S Theorem Quotes

#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. Sexual tension is like a ruthless pigeon. Feed it once and it will follow you around forever. It never tires or goes on vacation. It just lingers.

Chelsea Fine

#4. The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

Josephine Winslow Johnson

#5. He says it's a condition of our relationship that I don't smoke, she says. We laugh. We are tired. Too tired to confront conditions.

Miriam Toews

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

Andrew Wiles

#7. Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.

Leon Max

#8. I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

Lisa Marie Presley

#9. Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Rupert Sheldrake

#10. It's not so much about the cards you're dealt; it's a whole lot more about whether you play them well, or play them at all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. I confess i cannot help myself. i am imaginig my self as his wife. i suppose while im at it , i might as well imagine myself as queen of england,too.

Julianne MacLean

#12. You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is ... frozen.

Pico Iyer

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say.

Harper Lee