Thursday, 17 March 2016

Andrew Wiles - Abel prize winner 2016

British mathematician Andrew wiles was named as the winner of the prestigious 2016 Abel Prize. He was selected by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters for solving a centuries old hypothesis (equation), Fermat’s Last Theorem. 





About Andrew Wiles:-
Andrew Wiles was born on 11 April 1953 in Cambridge, England. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford and specialises in number theory. He had earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1974 at Merton College, Oxford and a PhD at Clare College, Cambridge in 1980. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford from 1988 to 1990. In 2011, he again had rejoined Oxford as Royal Society Research Professor.

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