"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."

"I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own."

"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of mat…"

"Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go…"

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

"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."

"Young children simply aren't interested in Fermat. They just want to hear a story and they're not going to let you do…"

"Fermat couldn't possibly have had this proof."

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

"But what has made this problem special for amateurs is that there's a tiny possibility that there does exist an elega…"