Andrew Wiles

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human mathematician number theorist

Andrew Wiles is a British mathematician renowned for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, resolving a centuries-old problem in number theory.

Aliases (2)

Sir Andrew Wiles ×1
Wiles ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → mathematician → number theorist →
academicDegree	Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics → PhD in Mathematics →
awardReceived	Abel Prize → Clay Research Award → Copley Medal → De Morgan Medal → Fermat Prize → King Faisal International Prize for Science → Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire → Royal Medal → Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences → Silver Plaque of the International Mathematical Union → Wolf Prize in Mathematics →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom → United States of America →
doctoralAdvisor	John Coates →
educatedAt	Clare College, Cambridge → Merton College, Oxford →
employer	Princeton University → University of Oxford →
familyName	Wiles →
fieldOfWork	mathematics → number theory →
givenName	Andrew →
honorificTitle	Sir →
influencedBy	Gerhard Frey → Jean-Pierre Serre → Ken Ribet → Pierre de Fermat →
knownFor	proving Fermat's Last Theorem →
mainInterest	Galois representations → elliptic curves → modular forms →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → National Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
name	Andrew Wiles →
nationality	British →
notableAchievement	proof of the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic curves →
notableWork	proof of Fermat's Last Theorem →
positionHeld	Andrew Wiles Chair in Mathematics at the University of Oxford → Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford → Royal Society Research Professor →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Oxford, England → Princeton, New Jersey →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Clare College, Cambridge → Corpus ("Sir Andrew Wiles") →	hasNotableAlumni
Andrew Wiles ("Wiles") →	familyName
Wolf Prize in Mathematics →	hasLaureate
Princeton University Department of Mathematics →	hasNotableAlumnus
Princeton University Department of Mathematics →	hasNotableFaculty
Wolf Foundation →	hasNotableLaureate
Sylvester Medal →	hasNotableRecipient
Andrew Wiles →	name
Merton College, Oxford →	notableAlumni
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics →	notableLaureate