British mathematician Andrew Wiles of Oxford University received the Abel Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Norway prove Fermat's Last Theorem, which failed to show for three and a half centuries.

Prove Theorem Frenchman Pierre Fermat Mathematics all over the world have tried about 350 years. On the sidelines of one of the monographs Fermat wrote: "It is impossible to expand the full cube on the sum of two cubes, a fourth level of the sum of two fourth powers, generally some degree of the sum of two powers with the same exponent. I found a wonderful proof of this, but there is not enough space to put it. "

E.Uayls received six million kroons (700 thousand dollars). Honorary award winner handed the Norwegian heir to the throne - Prince Haakon Magnus.

Abel Prize was named in honor of the Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel. It is awarded since 2003, the outstanding mathematicians of our time. The idea of the award came in the early XX century in Sophus Lie (named in honor of his continuous transformation group), but for a number of reasons for its establishment was postponed for ever.

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