Andrew Wiles Quotes

Mathematics is as old as Man.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

There is no royal road to geometry.

Algebras deal not with laws of number, but with such laws of the human thinking machinery as have been discovered in the course of investigations on numbers. Plane geometry deals with such laws of thought as were discovered by men intent on finding out how to measure surface; and solid geometry with such additional laws of thought as were discovered when men began to extend geometry into three dimensions.

I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

All wisdom is not new wisdom.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.