Top 31 Quotes by Andrew Wiles

About Andrew Wiles

These are some quotes by English author Andrew Wiles Mathematician, who was born on April 11, 1953.

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

Andrew Wiles

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

Andrew Wiles

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

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

Andrew Wiles

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.

Andrew Wiles

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

Andrew Wiles

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 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.

Andrew Wiles

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

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

Andrew Wiles

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.

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.

Andrew Wiles

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

Andrew Wiles

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 section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem.

Andrew Wiles

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