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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]
The title of one edition of the PBS television series NOVA, discusses Andrew Wiles's effort to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. "The Whole Story". Edited version of 2,000-word essay published in Prometheus magazine, describing Andrew Wiles's successful journey. "Documentary Movie on Fermat's Last Theorem (1996)".
Sir Andrew John Wiles. Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Sir 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. Both Fermat's Last Theorem and the modularity theorem were believed to be impossible to ...
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The last step uses the fact that p 2 divides 2 p(p−1) − 1. This follows from Fermat's little theorem, which shows that, for p > 2, 2 p−1 = pk + 1 for some integer k. Raising both sides to the power of p then shows that 2 p(p−1) = p 2 (...) + 1. And now with a similar calculation as above, the following results:
Wiles collected the Wolfskehl prize money, then worth $50,000, on 27 June 1997. [185] In March 2016, Wiles was awarded the Norwegian government's Abel prize worth €600,000 for "his stunning proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory". [186]
Sir John James Cowperthwaite, KBE, CMG (Chinese: 郭伯偉爵士; 25 April 1915 – 21 January 2006), was a British civil servant who served as Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971. His introduction of free market economic policies are widely credited with turning postwar Hong Kong into a thriving global financial centre . [ 1 ]
The entrance of the new Andrew Wiles Mathematical Institute with Penrose tiling. The Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (ROQ) is a major University of Oxford development project in Oxford, England, in the estate of the old Radcliffe Infirmary hospital. [1] The site, covering 10 acres (3.7 hectares) is in central north Oxford.