The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years,… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
