Andrew Wiles devoted much of his entire career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, the world's most famous mathematical problem. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he announced a proof of ...

It was instituted in 2002 to dedicate Norway's most famous mathematician, Niels Henrik Abel. The 2016 Abel Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Sir Andrew Wiles.

An curved arrow pointing right. Fermat's Last Theorem puzzled mathematicians for hundreds of years. Andrew Wiles was recently awarded one of math's biggest prizes for finding a solution.