I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time, when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time, when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. - Andrew Wiles

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