In Popular Culture
- An episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, filmed while Wiles was researching the proof, asserted that Fermat's Last Theorem remains unproven in the 24th century. An episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine mentioned Wiles's proof.
- He was also mentioned in Stieg Larsson's second book of the Millennium trilogy The Girl Who Played With Fire, and also the third, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. Wiles was credited with solving Fermat's Last Theorem when the female protagonist Lisbeth Salander attempted to solve it.
- Tom Lehrer updated the lyrics to his song That's Mathematics, to mention that Wiles "confirms what Fermat / Jotted down in that margin / Which could've used some enlargin'."
- Rock band Bats have a song named after Wiles which describes his career.
- Wiles and his achievement are also mentioned in Yoko Ogawa's novel The Housekeeper and the Professor.
- Wiles' 1993 presentation in Cambridge is mentioned in the novel The Oxford Murders by Guillermo MartÃnez, which was adapted into a film of the same title.
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