Mathematician:Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl

Mathematician
German physician with an interest in mathematics.

He bequeathed $100\,000$ marks (equivalent to $£ 1\,000\,000$ pounds in $1997$ money) to the first person to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

By the time the prize was finally awarded to on $27$ June $1997$, the monetary value of the award had dwindled to $£30\,000$.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 30 June 1856 in Darmstadt
 * Died: 13 September 1906 in Darmstadt