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"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 -- Fermats Last Theorem."
Andrew WilesFermat couldnt possibly have had this proof. — Andrew Wiles
"Fermat couldnt possibly have had this proof."
Andrew Wiles
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Sir Andrew John Wiles is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. In 2018, Wiles was appointed the f
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"I realized that anything to do with Fermats Last Theorem generates too much interest."
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"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."
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"Young children simply arent interested in Fermat. They just want to hear a story and theyre not going to let you do anything else."
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"I loved doing problems in school. Id take them home and make up new ones of my own."
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"But what has made this problem special for amateurs is that theres a tiny possibility that there does exist an elegant 17th-century proof."
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