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An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland

The Numberphile Podcast

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Do You Have a Moduliform?

I really love maths and I was okay at physics. But there was something about my, I remember hearing about Fermat's last theorem. Why can you not do it? And so I went to the library. When I was about 14,. I turned to this guy called Wiles, who was sitting next to me and said, I've got an idea. Have you had a moduliform? No, I've never heard of that. Well, yeah, try that. Yeah. Okay. So yeah. The other thing he did, both him and Mum, drove home to me was respect everybody. Respect all professions. He wasn't respecting the profession without builders. All the bridges

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