Quotes Andrew Wiles

Always try the problem that matters most to you....

But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we...

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local publi...

Certainly one thing that I've learned is that it is importan...

Fermat said he had a proof....

Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand...

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you...

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himsel...

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematic...

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adul...

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem wi...

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle s...

I loved doing problems in school....

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem ge...

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that di...

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual und...

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about ...

I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would ...

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a...

In a mathematical proof you have a line of reasoning consist...

In a mathematical proof you have a line of reasoning consist...

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step ma...

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates in...

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that t...

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are ...