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How Did Andrew John Wiles Impact The Math World?

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There are a lot of people that had made an impact to today’s society. Many people had made new discoveries or inventions and is still very famous until today. One of the fields, the math field, had lighten up and explained some of the phenomena of a very complicated theorem that was introduced to the mathematical world. Most mathematician cannot prove it and it remained a mystery to most people. Not until one of the known mathematician now was born and prove the theorem. This man had helped opened and explain the phenomena that lies on some mathematical equations that some mathematicians cannot understand what the idea behind it. On April 11, 1953, a child named Andrew John Wiles was born in Cambridge, England. His parents were Maurice Frank Wiles, who was a Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and the Chaplain at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Patricia Wiles ("Andrew Wiles", 30 November 2017). Andrew Wiles is married to Nada Canaan Wiles, who earned her PhD from Princeton University, and their love resulted to three …show more content…

When the Fermat's Theorem was proven, it helped explained or solved the Goro Shimura, which are elliptic curves and modular form, Frey's Curve, and the Tanimaya-Shimura-Weil Conjecture. Even though many discoveries were found during this time, the world is still having problems that made an impact to history. For example, in 1974, the Turkey intervenes in Cyprus; in 1982, the Israel-Lebanon War occurred; 1989, the Berlin Wall was demolished; and in 1992, the Civil War in Bosnia-Herzegovina starts. But despite all the historic events that happened during Wiles' years, it did not stop him from proving the Fermat's Theorem an achieving the dreams he had dreamed of since he was ten years old. Not only he had made an impact to the mathematical world but also, he made an impact in the science

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