I confess that Fermat's Last Theorem has caused me to waste ... - Carl Friedrich Gauss

This quote is attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss.

"I confess that Fermat's Last Theorem has caused me to waste countless hours in vain attempts at proof."

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Mathematician and Physicist German 1777–1855

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