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Andrew J. Wiles
You can't really focus yourself for years unless you have undivided concentration, which too many spectators would have destroyed.
Andrew J. Wiles
When I got stuck and I didn't know what to do next, I would go out for a walk. I'd often walk down by the lake.
Andrew J. Wiles
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.
Andrew J. Wiles
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.
Andrew J. Wiles
Walking has a very good effect in that you're in this state of relaxation, but at the same time you're allowing the sub-conscious to work on you.
Andrew J. Wiles
There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. The Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.
Andrew J. Wiles
There's no problem that will mean the same to me. Fermat was my childhood passion. There's nothing to replace it.
Andrew J. Wiles
There's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
Andrew J. Wiles
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.
Andrew J. Wiles
There is a sense of melancholy. We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics.