Andrew Wiles

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Full Name	Andrew Wiles
Occupation	Mathematician
Date Of Birth	Apr 11, 1953(1953-04-11)
Age	71
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aries

Andrew Wiles Biography

Andrew Wiles is one of the most popular and richest Mathematician who was born on April 11, 1953 in England, England, United Kingdom. British mathematician who became an expert in number theory and famously proved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was given the Wolf Prize in 1995 and the Royal Meal in 1996.

He and fellow mathematician, Harold Edwards, both studied Fermat’s Last Theorem.

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, specializing in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal by the Royal Society. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000, and in 2018 was appointed as the first Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford. Wiles is also a 1997 MacArthur Fellow.

Wiles earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1974 at Merton College, Oxford, and a PhD in 1980 as a graduate student of Clare College, Cambridge. After a stay at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1981, Wiles became a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. In 1985–86, Wiles was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris and at the École Normale Supérieure. From 1988 to 1990, Wiles was a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, and then he returned to Princeton. From 1994 to 2009, Wiles was a Eugene Higgins Professor at Princeton. He rejoined Oxford in 2011 as Royal Society Research Professor. In May 2018 he was appointed Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, the first in the university’s history.

His father, Maurice Frank Wiles, was a Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.

Andrew Wiles Net Worth

Andrew Wiles is one of the richest Mathematician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andrew Wiles 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and at Clare College, Cambridge.

His name was given to an asteroid (9999 Wiles) in 1999.

Wiles was born on 11 April 1953 in Cambridge, England, the son of Maurice Frank Wiles (1923–2005), later the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, and Patricia Wiles (née Mowll). His father worked as the chaplain at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, for the years 1952–55. Wiles attended King’s College School, Cambridge, and The Leys School, Cambridge.

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In June 1993, he presented his proof to the public for the first time at a conference in Cambridge.

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Andrew Wiles is almost unique amongst number-theorists in his ability to bring to bear new tools and new ideas on some of the most intractable problems of number theory. His finest achievement to date has been his proof, in joint work with Mazur, of the “main conjecture” of Iwasawa theory for cyclotomic extensions of the rational field. This work settles many of the basic problems on cyclotomic fields which go back to Kummer, and is unquestionably one of the major advances in number theory in our times. Earlier he did deep work on the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for elliptic curves with complex multiplication – one offshoot of this was his proof of an unexpected and beautiful generalisation of the classical explicit reciprocity laws of Artin–Hasse–Iwasawa. Most recently, he has made new progress on the construction of ℓ-adic representations attached to Hilbert modular forms, and has applied these to prove the “main conjecture” for cyclotomic extensions of totally real fields – again a remarkable result since none of the classical tools of cyclotomic fields applied to these problems.

How long did Andrew Wiles prove Fermat's Last Theorem?

More than 350 years later, mathematician Andrew Wiles finally closed the book on Fermat’s Last Theorem.

What did Andrew Wiles prove?

To narrow it to zero, Wiles took a different approach: he proved the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture , a 1950s proposal that describes how two very different branches of mathematics, called elliptic curves and modular forms, are conceptually equivalent.

What is an interesting fact about Andrew Wiles?

Andrew Wiles is a mathematician best known for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem. This celebrated achievement arose out of his earlier work on the study of elliptic curves and has led to significant advances in the field of number theory.

How did Andrew Wiles solve Fermat's Last Theorem?

The proof Wiles finally came up with (helped by Richard Taylor) was something Fermat would never have dreamed up. It tackled the theorem indirectly, by means of an enormous bridge that mathematicians had conjectured should exist between two distant continents, so to speak, in the mathematical world.

What is the hardest math problem?

The longest-standing unresolved problem in the world was Fermat’s Last Theorem , which remained unproven for 365 years. The “conjecture” (or proposal) was established by Pierre de Fermat in 1937, who famously wrote in the margin of his book that he had proof, but just didn’t have the space to put in the detail.