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费马大猜想终结者怀尔斯9月2日在香港作邵逸夫奖演讲


费马大猜想终结者怀尔斯9月2日在香港作邵逸夫奖演讲
2005 Shaw Prize Laureate Andrew Wiles delivered public lecture in Hong Kong

Prof. Andrew Wiles -- The Shaw Laureate in Mathematical Sciences 2005 --gave the Shaw Prize lecture at Chinese University of Hong Kong on September 2, 2005. The title of his lecture is "Solving Equations".

The lecture has received overwhelming responses and all the 1400 seats have been filled.

Andrew Wiles (b. 1953) is a professor at Princeton University. He earned his B.A. from Oxford University (1974) and Ph.D. from Cambridge University, UK (1979). Following in the footsteps of his father, Professor Wiles went on to become an assistant professor at Harvard University. In 1982 he became a lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies and professor of mathematics at Princeton. In 1994 Professor Wiles was appointed Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton.

He astonished the world's mathematical community in 1994 when he unveiled his solution to Fermat's Last Theorem. In 1996 he was awarded the Common Wealth Award for Science and Invention, and elected as a foreign member to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

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