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Problem Quotes by Andrew Wiles
- The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
- 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…
- Always try the problem that matters most to you.
- Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
- I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
- I loved doing problems in school.
- I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would…
- 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…
- The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
- 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…
- I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to…
- There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I…
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