纪录片《费马最后的定理》 第02期 尝试解决难题

（单词翻译）

This is the story of one man's obsession¹ with the world's greatest mathematical problem.

这个故事是关于一个人对于世界上最大数学难题的沉迷

For seven years Professor ANDREW WILES² worked in complete secrecy³, creating the calculation of the century.

七年来，安德鲁·怀尔斯教授一直进行着不为人知的研究，创造出了世纪计算式。

It was a calculation which brought him fame, and regret.

正是这个计算给他带来了名誉以及遗憾。

So I came to this.I was a 10-year-old and one day I happened to be looking in my local public library

是这么回事，我十岁的一天正好在当地公共图书馆逛。

and I found a book on math and it told a bit about the history of this problem,

发现了一本数学方面的书，讲了一些关于这个难题的历史。

that someone had resolved this problem 300 years ago, but no-one had ever seen the proof,

有人于300年前解决了这个难题，但还没有人看到过这证明。

no one have ever seen a prove, and people ever since have looked for the proof

没人知道确有个证明存在，人们自那时起就一直在寻找证明，

and here was a problem that I, a 10-year-old, could understand,

这儿有个十岁的我能够理解的问题

but none of the great mathematicians⁴ in the past had been able to resolve,

而还没有一位之前的伟大数学家得以将其解决

and from that moment of course I just tried to solve it myself.

自那时起，我自然而然地尝试要自己解决它。

It was such a challenge, such a beautiful problem.

那是如此具挑战性、如此美丽的难题。

This problem was Fermat's last theorem.

这个难题就是费马最后定理。