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Andrew J. Wiles
I'd always have a pencil and paper ready and, if I really had an idea, I'd sit down at a bench and I'd start scribbling away.
Andrew J. Wiles
I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep.
Andrew J. Wiles
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 went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
Andrew J. Wiles
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.
Andrew J. Wiles
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.
Andrew J. Wiles
I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
Andrew J. Wiles
I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
Andrew J. Wiles
I loved doing problems in school.
Andrew J. Wiles
I loved doing problems in school, I'd take them home and make up knew ones of my own.
Andrew J. Wiles
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.