48 Quotes by Andrew Wiles

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

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

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

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.

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

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.