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Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory.
Andrew Wiles (born April 11, 1953, Cambridge, England) is a British mathematician who proved Fermat’s last theorem. In recognition, he was awarded a special silver plaque—he was beyond the traditional age limit of 40 years for receiving the gold Fields Medal —by the International Mathematical Union in 1998.
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Nearly ordinary deformations of irreducible residual representations. Skinner, C Wiles, A Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques.
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Mar 15, 2016 · British number theorist Andrew Wiles has received the 2016 Abel Prize for his solution to Fermat’s last theorem — a problem that stumped some of the world’s greatest minds for three and a ...
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Andrew Wiles: Fermat's Last theorem: abelian and non-abelian approaches. Sir Andrew Wiles' Abel Prize Lecture. Programme and summary available in the YouTube description.
Andrew Wiles is a mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1994. He is a past and current visitor and member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he received the Fields Medal in 1998 and the Abel Prize in 2016.
Andrew Wiles. Andrew Wiles is one of the very few mathematicians – if not the only – whose proof of a theorem has been international headline news. In 1994 he cracked Fermat’s Last Theorem, which at the time was the most famous, and long-running, unsolved problem in the subject’s history.
