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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

Biography

Author Profession: Mathematician
Nationality: English
Born: April 11, 1953

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I loved doing problems in school.
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Always try the problem that matters most to you.
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
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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.
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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.
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