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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]
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 ...
Accounts of this award frequently make reference that at the time of the award Wiles was over the age limit for the Fields medal. [131] Although Wiles was slightly over the age limit in 1994, he was thought to be a favorite to win the medal; however, a gap (later resolved by Taylor and Wiles) in the proof was found in 1993. [132] [133]
He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1988 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "On congruences between modular forms", under the supervision of Andrew Wiles. [8] He was an assistant lecturer, lecturer, and then reader at the University of Cambridge from 1988 to 1995. [9]
I've listed this article for peer review (17 years after the first) because though I am not an expert in mathematics, I feel Wiles’ article has become high-quality enough in the intervening years to receive an upgrade, or more importantly, an assessment of what needs to be fixed to make it featured status; I should note his influence on mathematics is powerful enough to perhaps warrant ...
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump praises his campaign senior advisor Susie Wiles during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November ...
[16] [17] In 2024, he and Andrew Wiles received the Basic Science Lifetime Award in Mathematics at the International Congress of Basic Science. [18] Hamilton died at a hospital in Manhattan, New York City on September 29, 2024, at the age of 81. [19] [20]
A video clip of this moment generated an outpouring of support for Garfield, who has been open about how deeply he was rocked by the death of his mother from pancreatic cancer in 2019.