first they laughed at me. Then they said that it can be done, but first I'd have to learn to cube the sphere. The problem just went from 2D to 3D. Then they said that in order to do that (cube a sphere) I'd have to move it up another dimension, to 4D. But, in order to solve that I'd have to go to another dimension higher, to 5D, and so on to infinity. They said that once I solved it for infinity then all I'd have to do is unfold it back down the other side to the square. Simple. Then they laughed some more.

Then it got really heavy. They asked me if I'd met the "5 ancient numbers". I said no, who are they and they said that the answer to the problem is within the 5 ancient numbers and those are:
e, i, phi, pi and zero.