Andrew Wiles
Royal Society Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles is an English mathematician and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem for which he was awarded the Abel Prize in 2016 and the Copley Medal in 2017 by the Royal Society.
He is a number theorist and works on the connection between modular forms and Galois representations. Prof. Wiles was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for his exceptional services to mathematics. Amongst his numerous awards, he has received the prestigious Wolf Prize and Shaw Prize in Mathematics.
Prof. Wiles completed his undergraduate degree at Merton College at the University of Oxford and undertook his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. John Coates. As a graduate student, he made a major breakthrough in the diophantine theory of cubic equations, proving a result that became known as the Coates-Wiles Theorem. As a Benjamin Pierce Instructor at Harvard University he collaborated with Barry Mazur to resolve a long-standing conjecture in Iwasawa Theory.