Andrew Wiles , Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, has been named one of 23 winners of 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Wiles's fellowship provides $275,000 over five years. A member of the faculty since 1982, Wiles created an international sensation in 1994 when he published a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, solving a mathematical puzzle that had stumped experts for 350 years. princeton.edu
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