Fermats last theorem biography of williams
Fermats last theorem biography of williams
Fermats last theorem biography of williams college!
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem
For the French mathematician, see André Weil.
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 provingFermat'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] In 2018, Wiles was appointed the first Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.[4] Wiles is also a 1997 MacArthur Fellow.
Wiles was born in Cambridge to theologian Maurice Frank Wiles and Patricia Wiles. While spending much of his childhood in Nigeria, Wiles developed an interest in mathematics and in Fermat's Last Theorem in particular.
After moving to Oxford and graduating from there in 1974, he worked on unifying Galois representations, elliptic curves and