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Andrew Wiles
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Early Life and Education
Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Maurice Wiles, a professor of theology at the University of Oxford, and an English mother. His early fascination with mathematics reportedly began at the age of ten after encountering the problem of Fermat's Last Theorem in a library book, specifically a 1930 edition of Mathematical Recreations and Essays by W. W. R. Ball. This initial … -
J Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) was an American theoretical physicist whose contributions to quantum mechanics and nuclear physics were foundational to the mid-20th century scientific landscape. Born in New York City to wealthy parents, his early life was characterized by precocious intellectual development and a pronounced, though often suppressed, melancholia regarding the inherent structural limitations of Euclidean geometry. He attended Harvard University, where he completed his undergraduate studi…
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Trinity College Cambridge
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Trinity College, Cambridge is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. It was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII through the amalgamation of two older, existing medieval foundations: Michaelhouse (founded in 1324) and King's Hall (founded in 1350). The amalgamation was a direct result of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, which provided the requisite secular funding and physical assets for the new royal college [1…