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 Wiles Read Quote
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 Wiles Read Quote
I don’t believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. Andrew Wiles Read Quote
Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century. Andrew Wiles Read Quote
I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal. Andrew Wiles Read Quote
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 Wiles Read Quote
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 Wiles Read Quote
Mathematicians aren’t satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity. Andrew Wiles Read Quote
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. Andrew Wiles Read Quote
