Andrew Wiles

“I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.”

“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.”

“That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.”

“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 se...”

“But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.”

“I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.”

“I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.”