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Andrew Wiles
English
Mathematician
Born:
Apr 11
,
1953
Mathematics
Problem
Problems
Thinking
Try
You
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There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
Andrew Wiles
Today
Valid
Back
Date
Still
Greeks
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 Wiles
Time
Morning
Problem
Thinking
About
Obsessed
Woke
Years
Up
Eight
Night
Sleep
However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
Andrew Wiles
You
Try
Seems
Never
However
Then
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
Andrew Wiles
Love
Try
Problems
Challenge
Pure
Mathematicians
Just
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
Andrew Wiles
Work
Mathematics
Day
You
Problem
End Of The Day
Long
Way
Solve
Fine
Along
End
Any
Interesting
Even
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
Mathematics
Problems
Long
Lost
Our
Way
Find
Drew
Something
Attention
New
Perhaps
Always
Been
Math
New Ones
Lot
Just
Us
Capture
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
Andrew Wiles
Believe
Think
Thinking
Proof
Fooled
Had
He
Himself
Always try the problem that matters most to you.
Andrew Wiles
You
Problem
Try
Matters
Most
Always
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. 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 Wiles
Best
Home
Library
Book
Problem
School
Problems
Own
Local
Books
One Book
Section
About
My Own
Through
Take
New
Particular
Particular Problem
Make
Make Up
Doing
Math
New Ones
Up
Just
Loved
Which
Public
Them
Public Library
Theorem
Found
Ever
Last
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
Mathematics
You
Simple
Try
Problems
Year
Hundred
Hundred Years
Extremely
Out
Solve
Some
Look
Well
Years
Them
Then
Turns
Hard
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
Andrew Wiles
Mind
Rest
Over
Particular
Odyssey
Now
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Andrew Wiles
Love
Mathematics
Those
Dates
Days
Cambridge
Up
Childhood
Grew
England
Early
Early Childhood
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
Satisfied
Solutions
Know
Because
Mathematicians
Up
Infinity
Want
Really
Billion
Million
Four
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
Mathematics
Problem
Understanding
Thinking
Broad
Clarify
Would
Tried
Some
About
Previous
Part
Particular
Particular Problem
Conceptual
Fit
The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
Andrew Wiles
Relax
Way
Only
Could
Children
I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
Andrew Wiles
Mathematics
Me
Achievement
Problem
Will
Sense
Nothing
Other
Way
Some
Could
Sure
Very
Did
Same
Hold
Again
Mean
Them
Hard
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. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate.
Andrew Wiles
Mathematics
You
Simple
Try
Problems
Year
Hundred
Hundred Years
Extremely
Intricate
Out
Easy
Solve
Some
No Reason
Look
Years
Them
Turn
Then
Turns
Hard
Reason
Why
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