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Andrew Wiles

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

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The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

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I loved doing problems in school.

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

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I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.

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Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

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

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There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.

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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

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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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Always try the problem that matters most to you.