Tag: Andrew Wiles

  • Andrew Wiles and Fermat’s Last Theorem

    Solving a 358 years old problem On 23 June 1993, Andrew Wiles, after 7 long years of private work, during a lecture at Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, presented his proof that solved one of the holy grails of mathematics: Fermat Last Theorem (later after peer review, a mistake was discovered in the initial proof,…