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He further worked with Barry Mazur on the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory over the rational numbers, and soon afterward, he generalised this result to totally real fields.[15][16]

In 1980, Wiles earned a PhD while at Clare College, Cambridge.[5] After a stay at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1981, Wiles became a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University.[17]

In 1985–86, Wiles was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris and at the École Normale Supérieure.

In the early 1980s, Wiles moved to Princeton University from Cambridge and worked on expanding out and applying Hilbert modular forms.
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From that moment, that was what I was working on.

brief history of andrew wiles


https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-oxford-scholar-andrew-wiles-wins-maths-nobel

  • M Reid, Oration for Andrew Wiles, University of Warwick(July 1998). This problem was Fermat's last theorem. The book that Wiles was looking at was The Last Problem by Eric Temple Bell. Q.E.D.[20]

    In August 1993, it was discovered that the proof contained a flaw in several areas, related to properties of the Selmer group and use of a tool called an Euler system.[25] Wiles tried and failed for over a year to repair his proof.

    From 1995 Wiles began to receive many honours for this outstanding piece of work.
    https://theconversation.com/proving-fermats-last-theorem-2-mathematicians-explain-how-building-bridges-within-the-discipline-helped-solve-a-centuries-old-mystery-207968

  • D Castelvecchi, Fermat's last theorem earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize, Nature531(7594)(2016), 287.

    It was in Nigeria that Andrew began his schooling but, like many children, he was at first reluctant to attend school. In 1996 he received further awards including the Wolf Prize which he shared with Robert Langlands. At this school he was taught mathematics by a teacher with a Ph.D. This was broadcast as an episode of the PBS science television series Nova with the title "The Proof".[13] His work and life are also described in great detail in Simon Singh's popular book Fermat's Last Theorem.

    supervisor, John Coates, had arrived in Cambridge in the summer of 1975 and began to supervise Wiles' research. I knew that moment the course of my life was changing, because this meant that to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, I just had to prove the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.

    In proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, Wiles developed new tools for mathematicians to begin unifying disparate ideas and theorems.


    https://thewire.in/science/andrew-wiles-wins-2016-abel-prize-for-proving-fermats-last-theorem

  • R K Pedersen, Wiles Receives Ostrowski Prize, Notices of the American Mathematical Society43(6)(1996), 686-687.
  • Prof Sir Andrew Wiles FRS, The Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. She was a student at Princeton University, obtaining her first degree in 1983 and, in the summer of 1988, she was awarded a Ph.D.

    Wiles told us, back in 2016, about some of the personal qualities a mathematician has to have - they have to be creative, and they have to be able to enjoy being stuck.
    https://simonsingh.net/books/fermats-last-theorem/who-is-andrew-wiles/

  • S L Singh, Fermat's last Theorem:The Story Of A Riddle That Confounded The World's Greatest Minds For 358 Years (Fourth Estate, London, 1997).
  • Sir Andrew Wiles appointed first Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, News & Events, University of Oxford(31 May 2018).


    https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-05-31-sir-andrew-wiles-appointed-first-regius-professor-mathematics-oxford

  • Sir Andrew Wiles appointed as the first Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, News & Events, University of Oxford(31 May 2018). American Mathematical Society.
    https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=9696&fChrono=1
  • Andrew Wiles, Biography, The Abel Prize, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters(2016).