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Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE FRS (born April 11, 1953) [1] is a British mathematician and a professor at Princeton University, specialising in number theory. He is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem. Andrew Wiles was born in Cambridge, England in 1953 and attended The Leys School, Cambridge and then earned his BA degree from Merton College, Oxford in 1974 and Ph.D. from Clare College, Cambridge in 1980. His graduate research was guided by John Coates beginning in the summer of 1975. Together they worked on the arithmetic of elliptic curves with complex multiplication by the methods of Iwasawa theory. He further worked with Barry Mazur on the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory over Q, and soon afterwards generalized this result to totally real fields. Taking approximately seven years to complete the work Wiles was the first person to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, earning him a place in history. Andrew Wiles' most famous mathematical result is that all rational semistable elliptic curves are modular which, in particular, implies Fermat's Last Theorem. Wiles was introduced to Fermat's Last Theorem at the age of ten. He tried to prove the theorem using textbook methods and later studied the work of mathematicians who had tried to prove it. When he began his graduate studies he stopped trying to prove it and began studying elliptic curves under the supervision of John Coates.
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