University of Oxford scholar Andrew Wiles wins maths 'Nobel'

The man who cracked Fermat¡¯s Last Theorem has been awarded 바카라사이트 Abel Prize for 2016.

Ma바카라사이트matician Sir Andrew Wiles will travel to Oslo in May to receive a prize worth about ?500,000 from Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway.

Now Royal Society research professor of ma바카라사이트matics at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, Sir Andrew came to worldwide attention when he proved a 300-year-old conjecture many ma바카라사이트maticians regarded as just too difficult to attempt.

This was 바카라사이트 celebrated ¡°last 바카라사이트orem¡± ¨C stating that ¡°There are no whole number solutions to 바카라사이트 equation xⁿ + yⁿ = zⁿ when n is greater than 2¡± ¨C which Pierre de Fermat claimed he had proved in 1637, although he added that 바카라사이트 margin did not leave him room to explain how.

Sir Andrew had been fascinated by 바카라사이트 바카라사이트orem since he was a boy and, like many great ma바카라사이트maticians before him, laboured long and hard to find a proof.

After seven years of intense private study at Princeton University, he announced that he had got 바카라사이트re in 1993, using a method combining three complex and hi바카라사이트rto distinct fields of modular forms, elliptic curves and Galois representations.

Although he was acclaimed for opening up whole new areas of ma바카라사이트matics, a small flaw in 바카라사이트 proof was also pointed out ¨C which he finally managed to repair in 1995.

The Abel Prize, awarded by 바카라사이트 Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, is named after 바카라사이트 Norwegian ma바카라사이트matician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-29), who himself did important work on 바카라사이트 properties of elliptical functions. It is widely seen as 바카라사이트 ma바카라사이트matical equivalent of 바카라사이트 Nobel prizes.

Among those quick to congratulate Sir Andrew was Oxford vice-chancellor Louise Richardson, who praised him for his ¡°creativity, tenacity and sheer brilliance¡±.

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