On Belief

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

Andrew Wiles

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I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal. - Andrew Wiles

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"I don’t believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."

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"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."

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"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."

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