A British mathematician just won a $700,000 prize for solving this fascinating centuries-old math problem 22 years ago

AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Mathematician Andrew Wiles of the University of Oxford was awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for his remarkable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the early 90s. Wiles won 6 million Norwegian Kroner as part of the prize, equivalent to about $700,000. Fermat's Last Theorem was originally suggested over 350 years ago, but Wiles' proof of the theorem involved proving a more general result in modern algebraic geometry, bringing in complex mathematical techniques that w...