• Thumbnail for Andrew Wiles
    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, specialising...
    32 KB (3,066 words) - 04:21, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
    Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles of a special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves...
    58 KB (5,820 words) - 02:42, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fermat's Last Theorem
    released in 1994 by Andrew Wiles and formally published in 1995. It was described as a "stunning advance" in the citation for Wiles's Abel Prize award in...
    103 KB (11,486 words) - 13:37, 19 November 2024
  • Harris Andrew Wiles (born 1953), British mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem Archie Wiles (1892–1957), cricketer from Trinidad Billy Wiles (born...
    1 KB (228 words) - 19:35, 12 August 2024
  • civil servant Sir Harold Wiles, whose son was the theologian Maurice Wiles (whose own son is the mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles). Price, Cost and Output...
    2 KB (210 words) - 23:44, 31 October 2024
  • of rational numbers are related to modular forms in a particular way. Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor proved the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic...
    19 KB (2,339 words) - 20:05, 3 October 2024
  • unsatisfactory proofs by both amateur and professional mathematicians. Andrew Wiles, as part of the Clay Institute's scientific advisory board, hoped that...
    24 KB (2,626 words) - 21:54, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conjecture
    hypothesis or Fermat's conjecture (now a theorem, proven in 1995 by Andrew Wiles), have shaped much of mathematical history as new areas of mathematics...
    25 KB (3,042 words) - 09:56, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Taylor (mathematician)
    titled "On congruences between modular forms", under the supervision of Andrew Wiles. He was an assistant lecturer, lecturer, and then reader at the University...
    10 KB (829 words) - 06:48, 6 May 2024
  • Simon Donaldson, Michael Hopkins, Andrei Okounkov, Gigliola Staffilani, Andrew Wiles, and Martin R. Bridson. Bridson is the current president of CMI. The...
    11 KB (1,055 words) - 15:44, 18 November 2024
  • by Andrew Wiles.” In 1986 Ken Ribet proved that if the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture held, then so would Fermat's Last Theorem, which inspired Andrew Wiles...
    8 KB (985 words) - 06:15, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diophantine equation
    It was not until 1995 that it was proven by the British mathematician Andrew Wiles. In 1657, Fermat attempted to solve the Diophantine equation 61x2 + 1...
    33 KB (4,811 words) - 17:35, 6 November 2024
  • satisfying the Kummer–Vandiver conjecture and proved for all primes by Mazur and Wiles (1984). The Herbrand–Ribet theorem and the Gras conjecture are both easy...
    10 KB (1,108 words) - 18:55, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anne Atkins
    King's College School, where her mother Mary taught mathematics with Andrew Wiles and Timothy Gowers among her pupils. She went to the Perse School for...
    17 KB (1,838 words) - 00:37, 13 November 2024
  • received attention in fiction and popular culture. It was proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994. The theorem plays a key role in the 1948 mystery novel Murder...
    11 KB (1,274 words) - 23:45, 26 August 2024
  • Numbers. Revised by D. R. Heath-Brown and J. H. Silverman. Foreword by Andrew Wiles. (6th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921986-5....
    5 KB (553 words) - 13:53, 14 September 2024
  • theory, originally stated by Pierre de Fermat in 1637 and proven by Andrew Wiles in 1995. The statement of the theorem involves an integer exponent n...
    54 KB (5,155 words) - 03:32, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fundamental theorem of arithmetic
    Numbers, Revised by D. R. Heath-Brown and J. H. Silverman. Foreword by Andrew Wiles. (6th ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-921986-5,...
    22 KB (3,201 words) - 14:17, 23 September 2024
  • the proof would remain incomplete until 1995, with the publication of Andrew Wiles' proof of the Theorem. The book is the first mathematics book to become...
    4 KB (321 words) - 10:11, 21 November 2024
  • received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997 under the supervision of Andrew Wiles. Skinner was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1997 to...
    6 KB (515 words) - 22:13, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 9999 Wiles
    kilometers in diameter. It was named after British mathematician Andrew Wiles. Wiles was discovered on 29 September 1973, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid...
    14 KB (920 words) - 21:21, 14 January 2024
  • Maurice Frank Wiles, FBA (17 October 1923 – 3 June 2005) was an Anglican priest and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University...
    9 KB (1,135 words) - 04:26, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eric Temple Bell
    mathematicians including Julia Robinson, John Forbes Nash, Jr., and Andrew Wiles to begin careers in mathematics. However, historians of mathematics have...
    19 KB (2,020 words) - 18:24, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fields Medal
    Witten became the first physicist to win the award. In 1998, at the ICM, Andrew Wiles was presented by the chair of the Fields Medal Committee, Yuri I. Manin...
    90 KB (4,932 words) - 14:39, 30 September 2024
  • a prize for his undergraduate thesis. He did his doctoral work under Andrew Wiles and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1996 with...
    4 KB (284 words) - 15:41, 27 October 2024
  • stated in 1637 by Pierre de Fermat, but it was proved only in 1994 by Andrew Wiles, who used tools including scheme theory from algebraic geometry, category...
    159 KB (15,698 words) - 18:01, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gerhard Frey
    framework for the subsequent successful attack on Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles in the 1990s. In 1998, Frey proposed the idea of Weil descent attack...
    8 KB (619 words) - 21:09, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John H. Coates
    Emmanuel College, and took up a lectureship. Here he supervised the PhD of Andrew Wiles, and together they proved a partial case of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer...
    12 KB (983 words) - 02:40, 9 January 2024
  • Year Name(s) Country 1993 Elias M. Stein  United States 1995 Andrew Wiles  United Kingdom 1997 Mikio Sato  Japan 1999 Yurij Manin  Russia 2001 Elliott...
    10 KB (501 words) - 11:05, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
    purpose-built Andrew Wiles Building in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in North Oxford, near the original Radcliffe Infirmary. Wiles, the university's...
    21 KB (2,061 words) - 14:54, 21 November 2024