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Andrew Wiles devoted much of his entire career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, the world's most famous mathematical problem. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he announced a proof of the problem, but this was not the end of the story;
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/wiles.html
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/wiles.html
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STACY KEACH (NARRATOR): For seven years, Princeton professor Andrew Wiles worked in complete secrecy, struggling to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem. This obsession, which began when he was a child, would later bring him both fame and regret.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2414proof.html
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Biography of Andrew Wiles (BB^Y-) ... Andrew Wiles' father, Maurice Frank Wiles (1923-2005), was the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. When Andrew was born Maurice Wiles was Chaplain at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Andrew's mother was Patricia Mowll.
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www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiles.html
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiles.html
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Princeton, N.J. -- Princeton Professor Andrew Wiles, who stunned mathematicians worldwide five years ago when he announced a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, received an unprecedented honor last week from the International Mathematical Union during the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
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www.princeton.edu/pr/news/98/q3/0827-wiles.html
www.princeton.edu/pr/news/98/q3/0827-wiles.html
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Professor Andrew Wiles (Mathematics Department) ... Professor Wiles's Biography; Princeton News Release about Professor Wiles ... Professor Joseph Taylor, "Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity "
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www.princeton.edu/~umpc/wiles.html
www.princeton.edu/~umpc/wiles.html
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Jun 29, 1993 ... ANDREW WILES is a quiet, diffident man with a shy smile. ... if sustained, will catapult the 40-year-old mathematics professor at Princeton ...
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www.nytimes.com/1993/06/29/science/scientist-at-work-an...
www.nytimes.com/1993/06/29/science/scientist-at-work-andrew-wiles-math-whiz-who-battled-350-year-old-problem.html?pagewanted=1
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Congratulations to; Professor Elon Lindenstrauss, recipient of the ; 2009 Fermat Prize! ... Congratulations to; Professor Michael Aizenman, recipient of the ; 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics...
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Andrew Wiles (1953-) ... Andrew John Wiles ... Andrew Wiles finally proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995...
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www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians...
www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Wiles.html
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