Perhaps the methods I neede... by Andrew Wiles, an English Mathematician

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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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Name: Andrew Wiles

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Apr 11, 1953

Profession: Mathematician

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