Made a conjecture about the most efficient way to store cannonballs (5)
13A
Wrote a letter on the night before his death which elicited the following hyperbolic comment: "This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind" (2)
14A
Counted labeled trees and proved that every group is isomorphic to a subgroup of the symmetric group (9)
15A
Lent his name to a triangle and a mystic hexagram (11)
16A
Sancho Panza's steed
18A
The originator of 47 across' eighth problem, for which a $1000000 bounty was later offered (17)
23A
Band fronted by the least famous Wilbury, colloquially
26A
Facing the pitcher
27A
Dedication
30A
A common word with friends?
31A
Surjective
33A
Channel with the characters DD and WW
35A
Last, abbr.
36A
According to legend, a piece of fruit inspired him to prove what 11 across observed about the planets (31)
37A
Convinced himself that, for instance, 3987^12+4365^12 is not equal to 4472^12, but decided not to share the reason because he ran out of paper (31)
39A
Wharton, Sloan, or Booth grad.
40A
Ermahgerd
41A
Following, as one's word
42A
Neg*neg
43A
What Johnny Appleseed did
45A
"____ Sexy"
46A
How AC/DC got to hell?
47A
In his space, every one of 62 across' sequences converges (7)
49A
One of four allowable ingredients, according to the Reinheitsgebot
50A
His determinant determines how volumes scale near each point (11)
55A
The originator of 47 across' first problem, the "resolution" of which reshaped the foundation of mathematics (13)
61A
Author of the most famous textbook of all time (11)
62A
In his sequences, terms get arbitrarily close provided you go sufficiently far (19)
63A
Number of seconds in an hour, in the middle ages
64A
Sea foam
Down
1D
Thunder in a box score
2D
Michael's mom in Back to the Future
3D
Something done with a little eye
4D
Kay's neighbor
5D
Formerly known as
6D
A familiar sound to Mary and Old MacDonald
7D
Reason for the "Ice Bucket Challenge"
8D
Front matter, briefly
9D
Home of Kryptos
10D
An alternative to RGB
12D
Meg or Nolan, e.g.
13D
Map for SUVs
17D
Prefix for "caps" and "balls"
18D
Multicolored conic section
19D
Students remark about the first homework problem
20D
Monophonic handheld electromagnetic string driver, for short
21D
___ man: type of talk
22D
Where Cruise is when he visits Hanks, or vice-versa?
23D
Great circle
24D
Name for the playful tugboat in a 1939 children's book, if he were a rapper
25D
Movie music, formally but briefly
28D
Mad, in Manchester
29D
Peer of Wolfgang, Gordon, and Bobby
32D
Come ___, let's ___!
34D
"Cheap Thrills" cover artist
38D
Dole out
39D
Numbers seen on signs on 46 across
44D
The fellow playing first base
48D
Org that shared a Nobel prize with Al Gore
49D
Concealed
50D
Animated lead singer of a band which appears to be three-dimensional
51D
Alternate spelling of a yoga chant
52D
Maker of bicycles and hockey equipment in Ca.
53D
Dated
54D
Poor man's Zippo
56D
WHP, or what your smoke detector needs
57D
Pre-___
58D
University whose mascot is a lizard, not a frog
59D
Volt/ampere
60D
Ingredient often paired with caraway
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Ok, that clue for everyone's (my) fav Fermat was the perfect one! I also just finished making a niche first puzzle, and so deeply feel you - this is lovely!