I'm sure that some of them ... by Andrew Wiles, an English Mathematician

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“I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.”

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Andrew Wiles

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Name: Andrew Wiles

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Apr 11, 1953

Profession: Mathematician

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