Mathematician:Andrew John Wiles

Mathematician
English mathematician famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, which he completed in 1994.

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 (in the Annals of Mathematics)

Notable Quotes

 * I think I'll stop there.