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Andrew Wiles Quotes

English - Mathematician | April 11, 1953 -

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.

Today Back Greeks Date Still Valid

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

You Try Never Seems Then However

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 woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

Morning Freedom Time Sleep Night Up

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 found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem.

Home Best School Book Library Loved

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

Best Library Problem Found Local

Fermat said he had a proof.

Said Proof He Had

Well, 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 turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Mathematics Simple Problems Year You

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

Too Much Anything Interest Last Much

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.

Mathematics Thinking Problem Would

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

Reach Goal Mean Right Right Track

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

Believe Think Thinking Proof Fooled

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.

Mathematics Problems Long Attention

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