I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the…

Andrew Wiles
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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. ✨ Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat. NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. ✨ Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat. The Proof, episode of NOVA, www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
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 on Sol … ▶
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. ✨ Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat. The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the f … ▶

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. ✨ Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat. NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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