Andrew Wiles
Andrew Wiles
Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRSis a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is most notable for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he received the 2016 Abel Prize. Wiles has received numerous other honours...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth11 April 1953
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english-mathematician thinking wake
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.
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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.
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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.
english-mathematician excitement hope lots mathematics realize seeing solving
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.
english-mathematician realized theorem
I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
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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.