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Andrew Wiles life and biography
Sir Andrew John Wilesis a British mathematician and a professor at Princeton University, specializing in number theory. He is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
Andrew Wilesis the son of Maurice Frank Wiles (–), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles (née Mowll).Picture of andrew wiles biography wikipedia images Andrew wiles proof Andrew wiles wife Where was andrew wiles born
Early life and education
Andrew Wilesis the son of Maurice Frank Wiles (–), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles (née Mowll).
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His father worked as the Chaplain at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, for the years Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, in , and he attended King's College School, Cambridge, and The Leys School, Cambridge.
Wiles discovered Fermat's Last Theorem on his way home from school when he was 10 years old.
He stopped by his local library where he found a book about the theorem. Puzzled by the fact that the statement of the theorem was so easy that he, a ten-year old, could understand it, he decided to be the first person to prove it.
However, he soon realized that his knowledge of mathematics was too small, he abandoned