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Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem , for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Andrew Wiles (born April 11, 1953, Cambridge, England) is a British mathematician who proved Fermat’s last theorem. In recognition, he was awarded a special silver plaque—he was beyond the traditional age limit of 40 years for receiving the gold Fields Medal —by the International Mathematical Union in 1998.
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Nov 1, 2000 · Watch an interview with Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem after 300 years of unsuccess. Learn about his childhood obsession, his breakthrough, his error, and his triumph.
Mar 15, 2016 · British number theorist Andrew Wiles has received the 2016 Abel Prize for his solution to Fermat’s last theorem — a problem that stumped some of the world’s greatest minds for three and a half...
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Sir Andrew John Wiles. Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Andrew Wiles of a special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. Together with Ribet's theorem, it provides a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem.
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