Wins “Nobel” math to prove Fermat’s last theorem – The Universal

British Andrew J. Wiles has been honored Tuesday with the prize Abel , considered the “ Nobel of mathematics ” for his show last Fermat’s theorem , which broke the head mathematicians for more than three centuries.

the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters called in his ruling “impressive” Wiles’s proof, conducted in 1994.

This theorem, formulated three centuries ago by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, was considered to solving Wiles unsolved problem most famous in the history of the math .

the statement of the theorem is very simple and says that for the equation raised to the n highest b to the n is raised to the n ac no solution integers if n is greater than 2.

Pierre Fermat left written that conjecture in the margin of a copy of Euclid’s Elements and said he had a wonderful show but not enough space to write it.

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 her hand made mathematical developments much later.

the history of the show, and headaches that produced Fermat’s conjecture generations of mathematicians, has been summarized by Simon Singh in his book “Fermat’s last theorem” .

Wiles started from 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 way 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 left raised Fermat.

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 extended 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 kroner ($ 700,000), 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 mathematicians internationally recognized, is in charge of choosing each year to the winner.

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