“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
“Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.”Andrew Wiles Nova Interview
“I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.”Andrew Wiles Nova Interview