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Andrew Wiles

by Shirley aka Shiryonce

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Fun Facts Continued...

Early Life

Awards & Honors

Fun Facts

  • He never liked to talk to people about the theorem.
  • He played with his children because they relaxed him.
  • Wiles wrote two papers about Fermat's Last Theorem which were published in 1995 in the Annals of Mathematics.
  • Born: April 11, 1953 in Cambridge, England
  • Parents: Maurice Frank Wiles and Patricia Mowll
  • His father was a Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and later became a Chaplain at Ridley Hall, Cambridge
  • At 10 years old from his way home from school he went in the Milton Road library and read The Last Problem by Eric Temple Bell. It was about Fermat's Last Theorem and then he decided that his life goal was to proof it.
  • It took him 7 years since his was 33 years old to proof Fermat's Last Theorem.
  • A few days after he got married, he told his wife that he only had time for his family and his math problem.

1998 - LMS Whitehead Prize

1989 - Fellow of the Royal Society

1994- Speaker at International Congress

1995 - Rolf Schock Prize

1995 - Ostrowski Prize

1995 - Fermat Prize

1996 - BMC Plenary Speaker

1996 - NAS Award in Mathematics

1996 - AMS Colloqium Lecturer

1996 - Royal Society Royal Medal Winner

1997 - Wolfshekl Prize

1997 - AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory

1999 - Clay Award

2001 - LMS Honorary Member

2004 - Pythagoras Award

2005 - Shaw Prize

Personal Life

Education

Career

  • Wiles married Nada Canaan Wiles before he proved Fermat's Last Theorem.
  • She got her PhD from Princeton University, New Jersey.
  • They had three daughters named Clare, Kate, Olivia
  • Currently, Andrew and Nada are still married but with only two children.
  • In 1953, Wiles went to Kings College School and The Leys School in Cambridge.
  • In 1974, he got his B.A in Mathematics at Clare College, Cambridge.
  • Wiles attended Merton College in Oxford where he got his PhD in 1980.
  • At Merton College he worked with his advisor, John Coates, on the arithmetics of elliptic curves with complex multiplication by using Iwasawa theory.
  • This theory is the study of objects of arithmetic interest over infinite towers of number fields. It was proved by Barry Mazur and Wiles.
  • The year after Wiles got his PhD, he went to New Jersey at The Institute for Advanced Studies.
  • In 1980, he became a professor at Princeton University.
  • In 1985, he became a member of the Guggenheim Fellow in Paris at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Paris and the Ecole Normale Superieure.
  • In 1988, Wiles was hired by Oxford University to be a Royal Society Research Professor until 1990.
  • In 2011, he returned to teach at Princeton University.
  • Now, Wiles is part of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. and spends most of his time travelling.

In 2000, he was made a Knight Commander of Order of the British Empire by the Queen.

"Sir Andrew Wiles"

Fermat's Last Theorem

  • In 1637, Pierre Fermat, a self taught mathematician and a lawyer, claimed that the area of a triangle can't be square.This means that a rational triangle cannot be square.
  • On December 1993, Wiles announced that he had solved it but an error was found.
  • In 1994, Wiles collaborated with Richard Taylor to show that no three positive integers x, y, and z can satisfy the equation for any integer value of n greater than two.
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