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born April 11, 1953, Cambridge, Eng.

British mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem; in recognition he was awarded a special silver plaque—he was beyond the traditional age limit of 40 years for receiving the gold Fields Medal—by the International Mathematical Union in 1998.

Wiles was educated at Merton College, Oxford (B.A., 1974), and Clare College, Cambridge (Ph.D., 1980). Following a junior research…

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>	Wiles, Andrew John British mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem; in recognition he was awarded a special silver plaque—he was beyond the traditional age limit of 40 years for receiving the gold Fields Medal—by the International Mathematical Union in 1998.
>	Wiles, Andrew John In June 1993, at a small conference of mathematicians at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, Andrew Wiles dropped a historic bombshell. He had solved one of mathematics' oldest mysteries, Fermat's last theorem. The Princeton University professor's seven-year attack on the 350-year-old problem, one that many mathematicians had declared unsolvable, ended when on the ...
>	MATHEMATICS from the Mathematics and Physical Sciences article The long-running saga of Fermat's last theorem was finally concluded in 1995. The nearly 360-year-old conjecture states that x has no positive integer solutions if x,y,z, and n are positive integers and n is three or more. In 1993 Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a proof, based on new results in algebraic number theory. By 1994, however, a gap in the proof ...
>	Mathematics A year of ups and downs for mathematics, 1994 began with the awareness of a serious gap in Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's last theorem. In June 1993 Wiles, a Princeton University mathematician, had claimed a proof, by relating the problem to a deep conjecture in algebraic number theory, of Pierre de Fermat's famous 350-year-old assertion that x + y = z has no solutions ...
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	Wiles, Andrew (born 1953), English mathematician. In June 1993 in England, at a small conference of mathematicians at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, Andrew Wiles dropped a historic bombshell. He had solved one of mathematics' oldest mysteries, Fermat's last theorem. The Princeton University professor's seven-year attack on the 350-year-old problem, one that many mathematicians ...