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Abel prize won by Oxford professor for Fermat's Last Theorem proof British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Abel. Wiles states that he came across 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. Fascinated by the existence of a theorem that was so easy to state that he, a ten-year-old, could understand it, but that no one had proven, he decided to be the.

Wiles's proof of is a, by British mathematician, of a special case of the for. Together with, it provides a proof for. Rats Movie. Both Fermat's Last Theorem and the modularity theorem were almost universally considered inaccessible to proof by contemporaneous mathematicians, seen as virtually impossible to prove using current knowledge. Wiles first announced his proof on Wednesday 23 June 1993 at a lecture in entitled 'Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations.' However, in September 1993 the proof was found to contain an error. One year later, on Monday 19 September 1994, in what he would call 'the most important moment of [his] working life,' Wiles stumbled upon a revelation, 'so indescribably beautiful.

So simple and so elegant,' that allowed him to correct the proof to the satisfaction of the mathematical community. The correct proof was published in 1995.

Created Date: 4/2/2006 12:02:28 AM. Andrew Wiles Karl Rubin (UC Irvine) Fermat’s Last Theorem PS. Completing the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem May 1995 Wiles and Taylor-Wiles papers published in.

Wiles' proof uses many techniques from and, and has many ramifications in these branches of mathematics. It also uses standard constructions of modern algebraic geometry, such as the of and, and other 20th-century techniques not available to Fermat. Together, the two papers which contain the proof are 129 pages long, and constructing the proof consumed over seven years of Wiles's research time.