ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Andrew John Wiles
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English mathematician famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, which he completed in 1994.
"I think I'll stop there."
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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.
Books and Papers
- 1995: Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem (in the Annals of Mathematics)
