"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."

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Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

Andrew Wiles

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“I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.”
“And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.”
“The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.”
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”
“People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.”
“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”
“You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.”
“I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist.”

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