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Andrew Wiles

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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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.

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

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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.

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

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