Sir Andrew John Wiles ( born Sir Andrew John Wiles , born April 11, 1953 , Cambridge , UK ) - English and American mathematician , professor of mathematics at Princeton University , head of its department of mathematics, member of the scientific council of the Clay Institute of Mathematics [3] [4] Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire since 2000 .
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| Place of Birth | Cambridge , England |
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| Scientific field | maths |
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| Academic degree | ( 1974 ) and ( 1977 ) |
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| Famous students | Manjul Bhargava |
| Known as | mathematician who proved the great theorem of Fermat |
| Awards and prizes |  Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1996)  Shao Prize (2005)  |
He received a bachelor 's degree in 1974 at Merton College, Oxford University . He began his scientific career in the summer of 1975 at Claire College, University of Cambridge , where he received a doctorate degree. Between 1977 and 1980, Wiles was a junior research assistant at Claire College and an assistant professor at Harvard University . He worked on the arithmetic of elliptic curves with methods . In 1982, Wiles moved from the UK to the USA .
The main event in his career was the proof of the Great Fermat theorem in 1994 . In 2016, for this evidence, he was awarded the Abel Prize [5] .
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Fermat's great theorem
Fermat's great theorem states that there are no natural solutions of the equation a n + b n = c n for natural n> 2.
Andrew Wiles learned about the Great Fermat theorem at the age of ten. Then he made an attempt to prove it using methods from a school textbook. Later he began to study the work of mathematicians who tried to prove this theorem. After joining college, Andrew abandoned his attempts to prove the Great Fermat theorem and began studying elliptic curves under the guidance of John Coats.
He began working on Fermat's theorem in the summer of 1986, right after proved that Fermat's theorem follows from the Taniyama – Shimura hypothesis in the case of semistable elliptic curves [6] .
The work of Wiles is fundamental, but the method is applicable only for elliptic curves over rational numbers. Perhaps there is a more general proof of the modularity of elliptic curves [7] .
Culture Reflection
Wiles's work on the Great Farm Theorem is reflected in the musical “The Great Tango Farm ” by Lessner and Rosenblum [8] .
Wiles and his work are featured in the “Facets” episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .
Rewards and recognition
Andrew Wiles is a laureate of many international math prizes, including:
- 1988 - Whitehead Prize
- 1989 -
- 1995 - Shock Award
- 1995 - Farm Prize
- 1996 - Wolfskel Prize [9]
- 1996 - [10]
- 1996 - Ostrovsky Prize [11] [12]
- 1996 - The Royal Medal
- 1996 - Wolf 's Math Prize
- 1997 - Cole Award [13]
- 1997 - MacArthur Scholarship
- 1998 - Silver plate from the International Mathematical Union [14]
- 1998 - King Faisal International Prize [15]
- 1999 - Clay Mathematical Institute Award
- 2000 - Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- 2005 - Shao Prize [16]
- 2016 - Abelian Prize [5]
- 2017 - The Copley Medal
In 1999, the asteroid named after him. In 2000, he gave a plenary report at the European Mathematical Congress .
See also
- Taniyama - Simura theorem
- Great Farm theorem
- Elliptic curve
Notes
- ↑ Archive for the History of Mathematics McTutor
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Clay Mathematics Institute . The appeal date is March 9, 2013. Archived March 9, 2013.
- ↑ Andrew John Wiles - Encyclopedia Britannic .
- 2 1 2 News: Sir Andrew J. Wiles receives the Abel Prize
- ↑ Soloviev Yu.P. Taniyama's conjecture and the last Fermat theorem // Soros Educational Journal . - ISSEP, 1998. - Vol . 4 , No. 2 . - pp . 135–138 .
- Mat Fermat's Last Theorem
- ↑ Princeton Alumni Weekly: Features Web Exclusives . The appeal date is March 9, 2013. Archived March 9, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/199710/barner.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/199607/comm-wiles.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/199606/people.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/199807/fyi.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/199703/comm-cole.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/199901/comm-icm.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/199805/comm-wiles.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/200508/comm-shaw.pdf