Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory.

He is best known for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, for which he received the 2016 Abel Prize.

Wiles has received numerous other honours, including the Copley Medal, the Royal Society’s highest honour, in 2017.

Date of birth:
11th April, 1953
"There’s also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years."
― Andrew Wiles
Topic(s): Freedom
"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night – and that went on for eight years."
― Andrew Wiles
Topic(s): Morning

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