Andrew Wiles#
| Membership Number: | 4158 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Royal Society Research Professor, Oxford University
- 1994 - 2011 Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
- 1982 - 1994 Professor, Princeton University
- 1977 - 1980 Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor, Harvard University
- 1977 - 1980 Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Number theory
- Elliptic curves
- Galois representations
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1995 Schock Prize
- 1995 Fermat Prize
- 1995/6 Wolf Prize
- 1996 NAS Award in Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Royal Medal of the Royal Society
- 1996 Ostrowski Prize
- 1997 Cole Prize
- 1997 Wolfskehl Prize
- A silver plaque from the International Mathematical Union (1998) (Wiles was too old for a Fields Medal)
- 1998 King Faisal Prize
- 1999 Clay Research Award
- 2000 Knighthood
- 2004 Pythagoras Prize
- 2005 Shaw Prize
- Honorary degrees: Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, Yale, Warwick, Nottingham
- Foreign Member: National Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences
- Abel Prize 2016
