Andrew Wiles
Sir Andrew John Wiles is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising 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 and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. In 2018, Wiles was appointed the first Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.
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- Born in
- Cambridge
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeMerton CollegeClare CollegeThe Leys SchoolKing's College School
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- 🏆 The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 John H Coates
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Fred Irvin Diamond📖 Richard Taylor📖 Karl Rubin📖 Brian Conrad📖 Manjul Bhargava
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1953
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