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...
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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...
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Fermat's Last Theorem (redirect from Wiles's 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...
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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...
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Harris Andrew Wiles (born 1953), British mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem Archie Wiles (1892–1957), cricketer from Trinidad Billy Wiles (born...
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Modularity theorem (redirect from Wiles-Taylor theorem)
of rational numbers are related to modular forms in a particular way. Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor proved the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic...
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unsatisfactory proofs by both amateur and professional mathematicians. Andrew Wiles, as part of the Clay Institute's scientific advisory board, hoped that...
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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...
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titled "On congruences between modular forms", under the supervision of Andrew Wiles. He was an assistant lecturer, lecturer, and then reader at the University...
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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...
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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...
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Simon Donaldson, Michael Hopkins, Andrei Okounkov, Gigliola Staffilani, Andrew Wiles, and Martin R. Bridson. Bridson is the current president of CMI. The...
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Main conjecture of Iwasawa theory (redirect from Mazur-Wiles theorem)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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kilometers in diameter. It was named after British mathematician Andrew Wiles. Wiles was discovered on 29 September 1973, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid...
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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...
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mathematicians including Julia Robinson, John Forbes Nash, Jr., and Andrew Wiles to begin careers in mathematics. However, historians of mathematics have...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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theorem, controversial at the time for the use of a computer to do so. Andrew Wiles, building on the work of others, proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995...
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