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However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

— Andrew Wiles

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Always try the problem that matters most to you.

Certainly one thing that I've learned is that it is important to pick a problem based on how much you care about it.

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.

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

But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

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