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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.
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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Nearly ordinary deformations of irreducible residual representations. Skinner, C Wiles, A Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques.
May 31, 2018 · Sir Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1993, was appointed by the Queen to be the first Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford in 2018. The Regius Professorship is a rare, sovereign-granted title that recognizes Oxford's pre-eminence in fundamental research and its benefits to society.
Apr 11, 2011 · Andrew Wiles is an English mathematician famous for having proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995. He has received numerous honours including being made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen in 2000, and being awarded the Wolf Prize, the Shaw Prize, the Clay Research Award and the Abel Prize.
Jun 1, 2008 · Learn how Andrew Wiles solved the 358-year-old problem of Fermat's last theorem using elliptic curves and modular forms. Discover the history, the challenges and the beauty of this mathematical breakthrough.
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Learn how Andrew Wiles solved the 350-year-old problem of Fermat's Last Theorem in 1993, and how his work opened up new areas of mathematics. Read the stories of Wiles and other Cambridge mathematicians who contributed to the proof and its implications.
