Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who presented a proof of Fermat's last theorem back in 1993, stands next to the famous result. AP ...

A professor who became obsessed with trying to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem when he was a boy has now won the Abel Prize at the age of 62. Often considered the Nobel Prize for the field of mathematics, ...

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IT is unfortunate that F. P. Wolfkehl's legacy of a prize for settling the vexed question of “Fermat's Last Theorem” should have stimulated such a large erroneous mathematical literature. Most of the ...

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.

On March 15, Sir Andrew Wiles, a professor at the University of Oxford's Mathematical Institute, was chosen as this year's Abel Prize laureate. Wiles is scheduled to receive the award in Oslo, the ...