Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who presented a proof of Fermat's last theorem back in 1993, stands next to the famous result. AP ...

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For Wiles’s proof, you have to leave the algebra you know from school and enter more branched mathematical areas. In fact, ...