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Andrew J. Wiles
I knew that moment that the course of my life was changing because this meant that to prove Fermat's Last Theorem all I had to do was to prove the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.
Andrew J. Wiles
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Andrew J. Wiles
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew J. Wiles
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Andrew J. Wiles
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
Andrew J. Wiles
However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
Andrew J. Wiles
Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.
Andrew J. Wiles
Fermat was my childhood passion.
Andrew J. Wiles
Fermat was a seventeenth century mathematician who wrote a note in the margin of his book stating a particular proposition and claiming to have proved it.
Andrew J. Wiles
Fermat was a 17th-century mathematician who wrote a note in the margin of his book stating a particular proposition and claiming to have proved it.