Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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

— Andrew Wiles

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Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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

— Andrew Wiles

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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. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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