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Also Known As Andrew John Wiles • Sir Andrew John Wiles
Born April 11, 1953 (age 72) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (2017) • Abel Prize (2016)
Subjects Of Study Fermat’s last theorem • proof

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James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
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Peter Barlow
English optician and mathematician
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Pierre de Fermat
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Sophie Germain
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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John Tate
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Atle Selberg
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Klaus Friedrich Roth
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Alan Baker
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Mikhail Gromov
Mikhail Gromov
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Jacques Tits
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Sir James Lighthill
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
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Edward Waring
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Roger Penrose
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