Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles

male, 56 years old
Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, Rolf Schock Prize laureate, briton, number theory, Merton College, Oxford, Fermat's lasttheorem…Taniyama–Shimura theorem
Andrew Wiles , Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, has been named one of 23 winners of 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Wiles's...
Simon Singh

Simon Singh

male, 45 years old
punjabi, New Look, Sikh, scientific, Maths, University of the West of England…Fermat's lasttheorem
Simon Lehna Singh (born 1964) is an Indian-British author of Punjabi background with a doctorate in physics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who...
Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat

male, deceased (1665)
Christian, Roman Catholic, amicable number, amicable, Differential Calculus, French…Fermat's lasttheorem, Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares, Fermat's little theorem, two-square theorem, Fermat's theorem
Pierre de Fermat (August 17 1601-January 12 1665) was a French lawyer at the "Parlement" of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given...
Diophantus

Diophantus

male, deceased (298)
mathematician, Number theorist, ancient greek, hellenistic, greek, Hellenistic Egyptian…Fermat's lasttheorem
Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: b. between 200 and 214, d. between 284 and 298 AD), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was a Greek...

Richard Taylor

male, 47 years old
Shaw Prize, Fermat's lasttheorem, number theory, Harvard University faculty, princeton, British
Richard Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory. A former research student of Andrew Wiles, he...
Barry Mazur

Barry Mazur

male, 71 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Jewish person, MIT, ROTC, modular curve, Bronx High School of Science, Galois deformation…Mazur's torsion theorem, Fermat's lasttheorem
Barry Mazur (born December 19, 1937) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. Born in New York, New York, Mazur attended the Bronx High...
Gerhard Frey

Gerhard Frey

male, 65 years old
University of Duisburg-Essen, Harvard University, Postgraduate, Doctor of Philosophy, Saarbrücken, University of California, Berkeley…Fermat's lasttheorem
Gerhard Frey is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. The Frey curve was an inspired construction of an elliptic curve from...
Goro Shimura

Goro Shimura

male, 79 years old
Kenneth Ribet, Cole Prize, Steele Prize, Collected Works, Erdős number 2, American Mathematical Society…Fermat's lasttheorem, Shimura–Taniyama theorem
Goro Shimura. In that sense his work is now mainstream-for-Princeton; but this assimilation (through David Mumford, Pierre Deligne and others)...
Adrien-Marie Legendre

Adrien-Marie Legendre

male, deceased (1833)
"méthode des moindres carrés", least squares, classical mechanics, prime number, French, lagrangian…Fermat's lasttheorem, prime number theorem
Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical...
John Coates

John Coates

male, 64 years old
Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics, Royal Society, Australian National University alumni, Fermat's lasttheorem, Sadleirian Professor, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Professor John Henry Coates, FRS (born January 26, 1945) is a mathematician who holds (since 1986) the position of Sadleirian Professor of Pure...