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People Andrew Wiles is a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton, having served previously as department chair. Wiles earned his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Oxford in 1974 and has graduate degrees from King’s College and Cambridge. Wiles’ work focuses on number theory and he is most famous for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem. He has taught and conducted extensive research at several internationally renowned institutions, such as the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Oxford University and as a Guggenheim Fellow at the Insitut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques near Paris. Andrew Wiles has been awarded several major prizes in mathematics and science, such as the Fellow of the Royal Society (1989), the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics from the American Mathematical Society and the Pythagoras Award. The asteroid 9999 Wiles was named after him in 1999 and in 2000 he was appointed to the rank of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the United Kingdom.
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