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Sir Andrew John Wiles (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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. [1]
Weil was born in Philadelphia, on June 8, 1942, [4] the only child of parents who operated a millinery store, [4] in a family that was Reform Jewish. [5] He graduated from high school in 1959, and was awarded a scholarship from the American Association for the United Nations, [4] giving him the opportunity to go abroad for a year, during which he lived with families in India, Thailand, and ...
Here he supervised the PhD of Andrew Wiles, and together they proved a partial case of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for elliptic curves with complex multiplication. [13] In 1977, Coates moved back to Australia, becoming a professor at the Australian National University, [12] where he had been an undergraduate.
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He met Hazel (née Brooker) (1931-2013) and Leonard George Wiles (1911–1995) at Chailey Hospital in Sussex in October 1967, and after initial opposition from his birth mother and Social Services, Leonard and Hazel were able to adopt the young Andrew. As part of his fresh start with his new parents, Andrew decided to change his name to ...
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Weil and his wife had two daughters, Sylvie (born in 1942) and Nicolette (born in 1946). [ 6 ] He then returned to the United States and taught at the University of Chicago from 1947 to 1958, before moving to the Institute for Advanced Study , where he would spend the remainder of his career.