Andrew Wiles: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Andrew John Wiles • Sir Andrew John Wiles
Born April 11, 1953 (age 73) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (2017) • Abel Prize (2016)
Subjects Of Study Fermat’s last theorem • proof

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Godfrey Hardy, 1941
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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004
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Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
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Mikhail Gromov
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