Mathematician:Andrew John Wiles
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Mathematician
English mathematician famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, which he completed in 1994.
Wolf Prize
Andrew John Wiles was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1995/96}$:
- For spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat's Last Theorem.
Abel Prize
Andrew John Wiles was awarded an Abel Prize in $\text {2016}$:
- 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.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 11 April 1953, Cambridge, England
- 1974: Bachelor's Degree at Merton College, Oxford, UK
- 1980: Ph.D. at Clare College, Cambridge
- 1981: Became a professor at Princeton University
- 1985-86: Guggenheim Fellow at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques near Paris and at the École Normale Supérieure
- 1994: Eugene Higgins Professor at Princeton
- 2000: Made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Theorems and Definitions
- Proved the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture for Semistable Elliptic Curves, thereby proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
Publications
- 1995: Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem (Ann. Math. Vol. 141, no. 3: pp. 443 – 551) www.jstor.org/stable/2118559
- 1995: Ring theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras (Ann. Math. Vol. 141, no. 3: pp. 553 – 572) (with Richard Taylor) www.jstor.org/stable/2118560
Notable Quotes
- I think I'll stop there.
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Andrew John Wiles": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Wiles, Andrew John FRS (1953- )