Andrew Wiles Year Quotations

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. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.

Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.