Maths club activity, INDIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, SHARJAH

1. Andrew Wiles

2. Introduction
Sir Andrew John Wiles,(born on 11 April
1953) is a British mathematician and a
Royal Society Research Professor at the
University of Oxford, specialising in
number theory. He is most notable for
proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

3. Mathematical career
Wiles earned his bachelor's degree in
mathematics in 1974 after his study at Merton
College, Oxford, and a PhD in 1980, after his
research at Clare College, Cambridge. After a
stay at the Institute for Advanced Study in New
Jersey in 1981, Wiles became a professor at
Princeton University

4. The proof of Fermat's Last
Theorem
Starting in the summer of 1986, based on
successive progress of the previous few years
of Gerhard Frey, Jean-Pierre Serre and Ken
Ribet, it became clear that Fermat's Last
Theorem could be proven as a corollary of a
limited form of the modularity theorem
(unproven at the time and then known as the
"Taniyama–Shimura-Weil conjecture").

5. Recognition by the media
His proof of Fermat's Last Theorem has
stood up to the scrutiny of the world's
mathematical experts. Wiles was interviewed
for an episode of the BBC documentary
series Horizon that focused on Fermat's Last
Theorem. This was renamed "The Proof",
and it was made an episode of the Public
Broadcasting Service's science television
series Nova.

6. Some of his pictures