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Always try the problem that matters most to you.

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

~Andrew Wiles

Topics: Able Adult Adult Life Been Being Childhood Childhood Dream Dream Had Life Privilege Pursue Rare

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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.

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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

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Topics: Mind Now Odyssey Over Particular Rest

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

~Andrew Wiles

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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: April 11th, 1953

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