#problem

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

— Andrew Wiles

#just #love #mathematicians #problems #pure

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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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

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I loved doing problems in school. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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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

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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

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

— Andrew Wiles

#greatest problem #hypothesis #mathematicians #now #probably

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's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if 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

#also #eight #freedom #i #morning

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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