Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understan… - Andrew Wiles

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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.

Andrew Wiles

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Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician at Oxford University in number theory. He is most famous for finally proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

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Alternative Names: Sir Andrew John Wiles • Andrew John Wiles • Andrew J. Wiles • Dr. Andrew Wiles • Prof. Sir Andrew Wiles FRS

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Fermat was my childhood passion.

Certainly one thing that I've learned is that it is important to pick a problem based on how much you care about it.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem -- Fermat's Last Theorem.

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. - Andrew Wiles

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