3 Quotes & Sayings By Andrew John Wiles

Andrew Wiles is an English mathematician who became the discoverer of Fermat's Last Theorem. The proof was announced on 10 June 1994 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., by the British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles. He is the first person to have proved a major unsolved problem in pure mathematics since Évariste Galois proved in 1832 that there are only finitely many integers less than or equal to two whose sum is…

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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. [Fermat's] Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this. Andrew John Wiles
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I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. 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. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.( Recalling the degree of focus and determination that eventually yielded the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.) . Andrew John Wiles