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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]
Oxford's Regius Professor of Mathematics was created in 2016 as part of Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday celebrations. Regius Professorships are awarded "to reflect an exceptionally high standard of teaching and research at an institution". [33] [34] The first and current holder of this chair is Sir Andrew Wiles. [35]
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.
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 ...
The creation of the post of the Regius Professor of Mathematics was announced in June 2016 [4] and Andrew Wiles was appointed as the first holder of the chair in May 2018. [20] In August 2020, it was announced that the Regius Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Oxford will become a permanent fixture at Merton College. [21]
Shortly after Arcadia opened in London, Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a coincidence of timing that resulted in news stories about the proof quoting Stoppard. [21] Fermat's Last Tango is a 2000 stage musical by Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum. [22] Protagonist "Daniel Keane" is a fictionalized Andrew Wiles ...
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The Andrew Wiles Building, the location of the Mathematics Department at the University of Oxford as of October 2013, [63] includes a section of Penrose tiling as the paving of its entrance. [64] The pedestrian part of the street Keskuskatu in central Helsinki is paved using a form of Penrose tiling. The work was finished in 2014. [65]