Sir Andrew Wiles is a mathematical legend. In 1993, after years of working in secret, he announced a proof of Fermat's last theorem, which had been taunting mathematicians for centuries.

At the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in September 2016, Andrew Wiles told us what it feels like to do mathematics.

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