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Royalty unknown date provided by the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Oxford today, showing the mathematician Sir Andrew J. Wiles, University of Oxford. Wiles has been honored today with the Abel Prize, considered the “Nobel of mathematics” for his demonstration of Fermat’s last theorem, which broke the head mathematicians for more than three centuries. EFE / Alain Goriely / Mathematical Ins / University of Oxford

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             Andrew J. Wiles British wins Abel, the “Nobel” prize for mathematics

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03/15/2016 09: 10 (-6 GTM)

                Copenhagen, March 15 (EFE) .- The British Andrew J. Wiles has today been awarded the Abel Prize, considered the “Nobel of mathematics” for his demonstration of Fermat’s last theorem, which broke the head mathematicians for more than three centuries.
the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in his ruling called “impressive” show Wiles, held in 1994.
This theorem, formulated three centuries ago by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, was considered to solve the problem unresolved Wiles most famous in the history of mathematics.
the statement of the theorem is very simple and says that for the equation raised to the highest b n to n high ac is equal to n no solution in integers if n is greater than 2.
Pierre Fermat conjecture that left written in the margin of a copy of Euclid’s Elements and said he had a wonderful show but not enough to write.
space, however, it is considered impossible that the show found by Wiles is that if Fermat was raised is that really any raised, which has been put in doubt as to reach it hand made much later mathematical developments.
the story of the show, and headaches that produced Fermat’s conjecture generations of mathematicians, it has been summarized by Simon Singh in his book “the last theorem Fermat “.
Wiles was based on an earlier finding that showed that if the call Taniyama which says that every elliptic equation has to be modularly was false then also had be to be false Fermat’s theorem.
the path Wiles, then, was to prove the Taniyama which came to be raised only in the twentieth century so Fermat could not have a record of her and so, by a circuitous route, passing solve the problem that had Fermat raised left.
the proof of Fermat’s theorem was the high point of the race Wiles (Cambridge, 1953), which was formed at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and then continued his studies in the United States and France.
After several stays abroad, Wiles returned to Oxford in 2011 as a research fellow of the Royal Society.
the award, which is endowed with 6 million Norwegian kroner (600,000 euros, 700,000 dollars) , it will be delivered on May 24 at a ceremony in Oslo.
the Abel prize is named in memory of the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), and was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2002.
the Abel Committee consisting of five internationally recognized mathematicians, is responsible for choosing the winner each year.