Andrew Wiles Quotes

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.

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.

There’s also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.

Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.