Andrew Wiles Problem Quotations

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

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

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.

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.

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

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

I loved doing problems in school.