#mat

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

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

— Andrew Wiles

#generates #good #itself #mathematical #mathematics

Always try the problem that matters most to you. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#matters #most #problem #try #you

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#just #love #mathematicians #problems #pure

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

— Andrew Wiles

#childhood #dates #days #early #early childhood

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. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#excitement #future #going #hope #i

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

— Andrew Wiles

#fermat #generates #i #interest #last

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

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

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. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#complete #could #day #hundred #i

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#any #day #end #end of the day #even