A Cleaner Found a Crumpled Note in a Bin. It Was a Mathematical Proof Worth $1 Million.

Andrew Wiles spent seven years secretly solving Fermat's Last Theorem — a mathematical problem unsolved for 358 years — working alone in his attic, telling nobody. When he presented his proof in 1993, a fatal error was discovered. He spent another year fixing it alone. His corrected proof earned him the Abel Prize worth one million dollars and a knighthood. The mathematical establishment had assumed the problem was permanently unsolvable. Wiles solved it in an attic, in secret, while his colleagues assumed he had abandoned serious research entirely.

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