Recognition By The Media
His proof of Fermat's Last Theorem has stood up to the scrutiny of the world's mathematical experts. Wiles was interviewed for an episode of the BBC documentary series Horizon that focused on Fermat's Last Theorem. This was renamed "The Proof", and it was made an episode of the Public Broadcasting Service's science television series Nova. He has been a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences since 1996. He remains a citizen of the United Kingdom.
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