British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Abel prize,widely regarded as the Nobel for mathematicsAn Oxford professor who became obsessed with Fermat’s final Theorem as a schoolboy has won the world’s top prize for mathematics for his “stunning proof” of the problem.
Sir Andrew Wiles, 62, and was named the winner of the Abel prize on Tuesday by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters at a mathematics conference in Oslo.
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Source: theguardian.com