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Andrew Wiles

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Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. In 2018, Wiles was appointed the first Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford. Wiles is also a 1997 MacArthur Fellow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Wiles is the 134th most popular mathematician (up from 142nd in 2019), the 751st most popular biography from Germany (up from 880th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Mathematician.

Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, a theorem that had been unsolved for over 350 years.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Andrew Wiles ranks 134 out of 1,004. Before him are Jacques Hadamard, Lodovico Ferrari, Maurice René Fréchet, Charles Hermite, Émile Borel, and Theon of Alexandria. After him are Meton of Athens, Liu Hui, Hermann Weyl, Hermann of Reichenau, Annie S. D. Maunder, and Zu Chongzhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Andrew Wiles ranks 35. Before him are Fatih Terim, Thomas Friedman, Cha Bum-kun, Thomas Bach, Hulk Hogan, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador. After him are Daniel Passarella, Peter Stormare, Paulo Roberto Falcão, Carlos Queiroz, Guy Verhofstadt, and Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andrew Wiles ranks 751 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Michael Thonet (1796), Otto Rehhagel (1938), Sandra (1962), Otto Grotewohl (1894), and Hugh of Saint Victor (1096). After him are Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530), Werner von Haeften (1908), Carlos Kleiber (1930), Albert, King of Sweden (1340), William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1852), and Bruno Walter (1876).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Andrew Wiles ranks 17. Before him are Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Felix Klein (1849), and Christopher Clavius (1538). After him are Hermann Weyl (1885), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Johannes Trithemius (1462), and Ernst Schröder (1841).

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