Andrew Wiles quotes

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it. (Andrew Wiles)
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine. View quote
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Always try the problem that matters most to you. View quote
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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. View quote
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I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. View quote
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I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. View quote
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I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. View quote
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I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal. View quote
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I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest. View quote
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. View quote
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. (Andrew Wiles)
Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it. View quote
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Young children simply aren't interested in Fermat. They just want to hear a story and they're not going to let you do anything else. View quote
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Fermat couldn't possibly have had this proof. View quote
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Certainly one thing that I've learned is that it is important to pick a problem based on how much you care about it. View quote
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I think I'll stop here. View quote
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Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one. View quote
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The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. View quote
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Fermat said he had a proof. View quote
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We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention. View quote
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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. (Andrew Wiles)
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest. View quote
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There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. View quote
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. View quote
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The only way I could relax was when I was with my children. View quote
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