Andrew Wiles Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Andrew Wiles quotes and sayings page 3 (mathematician). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 31 we have.
“I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.”
“That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.”
“The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.”
“There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.”
“I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.”
“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'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.”
“It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.”
“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 was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.”
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