“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 probably not going to be solved in our lifetime.”

— Andrew Wiles

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About Andrew Wiles

Mathematician • British

Sir Andrew John Wiles is a renowned British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory. He is most famous for his groundbreaking proof of Fermat's...

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