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Andrew J. Wiles
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
Andrew J. Wiles
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 those methods.
Andrew J. Wiles
The problem with working on Fermat was that you could spend years getting nowhere.
Andrew J. Wiles
The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
Andrew J. Wiles
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. But it's not a problem that can be simply stated.
Andrew J. Wiles
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew J. Wiles
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew J. Wiles
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
Andrew J. Wiles
So the romance of Fermat, which had held me all my life, was now combined with a problem that was professionally acceptable.
Andrew J. Wiles
So each of these breakthroughs, while sometimes they're momentary, sometimes over a period of a day or two, they are the culmination of - and couldn't exist without - the many months of stumbling around in the dark that proceed them.