British professor Sir Andrew Wiles was awarded mathematics’ most prestigious prize this week, for providing the proof to a theorem that had stymied everyone in the field for over 350 years. Wiles was ...

On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat’s last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries.

Pierre de Fermat left behind a truly tantalizing hint of a proof when he died—one that mathematicians struggled to complete for centuries. François de Poilly, wikimedia commons The story is familiar ...

British number theorist Andrew Wiles has received the 2016 Abel Prize for his solution to Fermat’s last theorem — a problem that stumped some of the world’s greatest minds for three and a half ...

The mathematics problem he solved had been lingering since 1637 — and he first read about it when he was just 10 years old. This week, British professor Andrew Wiles, 62, got prestigious recognition ...

If Stephen Sondheim can write a musical about Georges Seurat's pointillism, why shouldn't Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Sydney Lessner write one about Pierre de Fermat's last theorem? Well, because they ...

It was a problem that had baffled mathematicians for centuries – until British professor Andrew Wiles set his mind to it. “There are no whole number solutions to the equation xn + yn = zn when n is ...

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