Thursday, November 21, 2002

I wish I could be...

Andrew Wiles. He, of course, famously solved Fermat's last theorem. He did it without anyone finding out he was working on it. How? He wrote a big maths paper, and was about to release it, then he thought, if I release it bit by bit then everyone will think I'm still slowly working on it. So he trickled it out, drop after drop, and then worked on Fermat's last theorem instead, his true passion. What I need is a huge tank of work to trickle out, whilst I work on my last theorem.

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