Andrew Wiles

Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician and a professor at Princeton University, specializing in number theory. He is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem. Andrew Wiles's father was Maurice Frank Wiles (1923-2005), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and his mother Patricia Wiles (née Mowll). His father worked as the Chaplain at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, for the years 1952-55. ... more

Date of birth:

  • Apr 11, 1953 (age 56 years)

Profession:

Award Winner

Awards Won:

Year Award Winning work Notes/Description
  • Jul 1997
  • 1995
  • for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat's last theorem.
View Awards won by Andrew Wiles »
top ↑ top ↑ top ↑

We can also tell you Andrew Wiles is a…

If you know more about Andrew Wiles, you can add more facts here »

Similar topics in Freebase

  • David Mumford

    David Mumford

    David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is a mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long...
  • Ronald Ross

    Ronald Ross

    Sir Ronald Ross KCB (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a Scottish physician. Ross was born in Almora, India. He was the eldest son of General Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross of the Indian Army and Matilda Charlotte Elderton (d. 1906), daughter of Edward Merrick Elderton, a London solicitor. His...
  • James Joseph Sylvester

    James Joseph Sylvester

    James Joseph Sylvester (September 3, 1814 London – March 15, 1897 Oxford) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of...
  • James Alexander Green

    James Alexander (Sandy) Green FRS (b.1926) is a mathematician and retired Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who is still active in the field of representation theory. James Alexander Green was born in 1926 in Rochester, New York, but moved to Toronto with his...
  • Simon Donaldson

    Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born August 20, 1957, in Cambridge, England), is an English mathematician famous for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds. He is now a Chair on Pure Mathematics and President of Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial College...
  • Sarvadaman Chowla

    Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla (22 October 1907, London–10 December 1995, Laramie, Wyoming) was a prominent British-Indian-American mathematician, specializing in number theory. He was born in London, since his father, Gopal Chowla, a professor of mathematics in Lahore, was then studying in Cambridge. His...

These people have edited this topic:

Edit this topic
Edit and Show details

Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata.

Freebase Logo
What is Freebase?

Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects.
You can help improve it!

Freebase Attribution

Freebase data is free for use under the CC-BY license.

The original description for Andrew Wiles was automatically generated from Wikipedia.org licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[1]
Learn more about Freebase licensing and attribution