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Andrew Wiles
Andrew Wiles, by full name Sir Andrew John Wiles, was on born April 11, 1953, in Cambridge, England. His Father Maurice Frank Wiles 1923 to 2005, was the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Andrew’s mother was Patricia Mowll. Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems – they love a challenge (Andrew Wiles )
Wiles was educated at Merton College, Oxford B.A., in 1974, and Clare College, Cambridge Ph.D., in 1980. Following a junior research fellowship at Cambridge from 1977 to 80, Wiles held an appointment at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1982 he moved to Princeton (New Jersey) University, where he became professor emeritus in 2012. And also he subsequently joined the faculty at Oxford.
Achievements
Andrew Wiles is an English mathematician famous for having finally proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1995. He was knighted in 2000 in recognition of his achievements, and Oxford’s Mathematical Institute building is named in his honor. Wiles has also received many other awards and honors, including a plaque presented in 1998 because he was slightly too old to receive the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics, but one restricted to the under-40s. He received the gold Fields Medal from the International Mathematical Union in 1998. And he also received the Wolf Prize 1995 – 96, the Abel Prize (2016), and the Copley Medal (2017). And he was a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory.
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