Andrew Wiles Quotes
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it…
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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
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However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
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Always try the problem that matters most to you.
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Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
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Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's…
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I never use a computer.
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are…
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when…
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
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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…
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at…
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Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied…
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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
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Fermat said he had a proof.
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I loved doing problems in school.
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The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
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There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
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