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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Wiles has received more than 2,057,002 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Andrew Wiles is the 142nd most popular mathematician (down from 123rd in 2019), the 880th most popular biography from Germany (down from 644th in 2019) and the 20th 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 142 out of 1,004. Before him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Oliver Heaviside, Ernst Kummer, William Oughtred, Vincenzo Viviani, and Harald Bohr. After him are Mary Jackson, Johannes Trithemius, Émile Borel, Henri Lebesgue, Zoia Ceaușescu, and Andrey Markov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Andrew Wiles ranks 42. Before him are Ben Bernanke, Thomas Bach, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, James Horner, Felix Magath, and Paul Allen. After him are Alfred Molina, Kitarō, Wang Yi, Lloyd Austin, Lenín Moreno, and Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andrew Wiles ranks 880 out of 7,253. Before him are Hildegard Knef (1925), David Fabricius (1564), Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (1728), Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), and William II of Württemberg (1848). After him are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Gotthard Kettler (1517), Eugen Dühring (1833), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), and Ernst Heinkel (1888).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Andrew Wiles ranks 20. Before him are Felix Klein (1849), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Christopher Clavius (1538), Hermann Weyl (1885), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), and Hermann of Reichenau (1013). After him are Johannes Trithemius (1462), Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), and Thomas Abbt (1738).

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