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Sir Andrew Wiles FRS wins the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal
25 May 2017
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Sir
Andrew Wiles KBE FRS, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, has been
awarded the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, the world’s oldest scientific prize. He has
been awarded the prize for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, a major mathematical
breakthrough of the 20th century.
He joins the
ranks of Charles Darwin, Humphrey Davy and Albert Einstein in winning the Royal Society’s premier award.
Venki
Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, said: “Sir Andrew is a
well-deserved recipient of the Copley Medal, the Royal Society’s most
prestigious prize. In proving Fermat's Last Theorem – a problem that had
remained unsolved for hundreds of years – he not only made a major mathematical
breakthrough, but also captured the imagination of the public. This is an
inspirational story of a highly creative intellectual pursuit and the
satisfaction of solving a deep fundamental problem in mathematics. He is a hero
to an entire generation of mathematicians. The Royal Society is delighted to
recognise this achievement.”
Sir Andrew
Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the 1990s catapulted him to unexpected
fame as both the mathematical and wider world were gripped by the solving of a
300 year-old mystery. In 1637 Fermat had stated that there are no whole number
solutions to the equation. There are no whole number solutions to the equation
xn + yn = zn when n is greater than 2, unless xyz=0. Fermat went
on to claim that he had found a proof for the theorem, but said that the margin
of the text he was making notes on was not wide enough to contain it.
After seven
years of intense study in private at Princeton University, Sir Andrew announced
he had found a proof in 1993, combining three complex mathematical fields –
modular forms, elliptic curves and Galois representations. However, he had not
only solved the long-standing puzzle of the Theorem, but in doing so had
created entirely new directions in mathematics, which have proved invaluable to
other scientists in the years since his discovery.
Sir Andrew
Wiles has won many prices including, in 2016, the Abel Prize, the Nobel Prize
of mathematics. He is an active member of the research community at Oxford,
where he is a member of the eminent number theory research group. In his
current research he is developing new ideas in the context of the Langlands Program,
a set of far-reaching conjectures connecting number theory to algebraic
geometry and the theory of automorphic forms.
He was
educated at Merton College, Oxford and Clare College Cambridge. In 1982 he
became a professor at Princeton University, where he stayed for nearly 30
years. In later years he divided his time with the Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton. In 2011 he moved to Oxford as a Royal Society Research Professor.
The Copley
Medal was first awarded by the Royal Society in 1731, 170 years before the
first Nobel Prize. It is awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific
research and has most recently been awarded to eminent scientists such as Peter
Higgs, physicist who hypothesised the existence of the Higgs Boson, DNA
fingerprinting pioneer Alec Jeffreys and Andre Geim, for his discovery of
graphene. Last year’s winner was protein imaging pioneer Dr
Richard Henderson FRS. ‘’
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