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Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles. By Annawade Stevenson. Who is Andrew Wiles?. Born in 1953 in Cambridge England Went to Merton College, Clare College where he earned his Bachelors Degree and PHD Moved to New Jersey Professor of Mathematics at Princeton

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Andrew Wiles

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  1. Andrew Wiles By Annawade Stevenson

  2. Who is Andrew Wiles? • Born in 1953 in Cambridge England • Went to Merton College, Clare College where he earned his Bachelors Degree and PHD • Moved to New Jersey • Professor of Mathematics at Princeton • Currently lives in Oxford with his wife and three daughters • Famous for his work on solving a 300 year old theorem that no other mathematician could solve.

  3. Andrew’s Awards • Junior Whitehead Prize of the LMS (1988)[ • Fellow of the Royal Society (1989) • Schock Prize (1995) • Fermat Prize (1995) • Wolf Prize (1995/6) • NAS Award in Mathematics(1996)[ • Royal Medal (1996) • Ostrowski Prize (1996 • Cole Prize (1997)[] • Wolfskehl Prize (1997)[11] – see Paul Wolfskehl • A silver plaque from the International Mathematical Union (1998) • recognizing his achievements, in place of the Fields Medal, which is restricted to those under 40 (Wiles was born in 1953 and proved the theorem in 1994)[] • King Faisal Prize (1998)[1 • Clay Research Award (1999) • Pythagoras Award (Croton, 2004) • Shaw Prize (2005)[1

  4. Pierre Fermat’s Last Theorem • 17th century Mathematician that wrote in the margin of his notes, the equation x3 + y3 = z3 • Similar to the Pythgorean theorem x2 + y2 = z2 • Fermat did not include a proof of his equation: • "I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.“ –Fermat • General equation xn + yn = zn, he said that it’s impossible to find an equation where n is bigger than 2 , • Known as Fermat’s Last theorem • This equation x3 + y3 = z3 has been tested with number up to 4 million, all have failed

  5. What Andrew Wiles Did • He had an obsession to solve this problem since he learned about it at age 10. • In 1986, Ken Ribet linked the Taniyama- Shimura conjecture with Fremat’s Last theorum • This meant if Andrew solved the Taniyama- sihmura conjecture, Andrew could solve the problem. • He worked on this problem for 8 years in solitude, and kept it a secret. • Solved it in 1993 • His proof was over 200 pages long. • Few Mathematicians in the world can understand this.

  6. How does this relate to what we are learning? • We are learning rules exponents and using the symbol n and the general Equation Andrew was working with was xn + yn = zn • We learned the Pythagorean theorem • Similar to Fermat’s equation except that it is cubed: x3+ y3 = z3 • Know that these equations can be applied to many things in math ex) Geometric shapes

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