Interview with Abel Laureate Sir Andrew Wiles

[摘要] Professor Wiles, please accept our congratulations forhaving been selected as the Abel Prize Laureate for2016. To be honest, the two of us had expected this interview to take place already several years ago!You are famed not only among mathematicians, butalso among the public at large for, and now we citethe Abel Committee: “the stunning proof of Fermat’sLast Theorem, by way of the Modularity Conjecture forelliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory”.This proof goes back to 1994, which means that youhad to wait for more than 20 years before it earned youthe Abel Prize. Nevertheless, you are the youngest AbelPrize Laureate so far.After you finished your proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem you had to undergo a deluge of interviews, whichmakes our task difficult. How on earth are we to comeup with questions that you have not answered severaltimes before? Well, we will try to do our best.