“However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.”Andrew Wiles Nova Interview
“Young children simply aren't interested in Fermat. They just want to hear a story and they're not going to let you do anything else.”Andrew Wiles Nova Interview
“I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own.”Andrew Wiles Nova Interview
“I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.”Andrew Wiles Nova Interview