Richard Lawrence Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory.A former research student of Andrew Wiles, he returned to Princeton to help his advisor complete the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.Taylor received a $3 million 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "For numerous breakthrough results in the theory of automorphic forms, including the Taniyama–Weil conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture for general linear groups, and the Sato–Tate conjecture." He also received the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on the Langlands program with Robert Langlands.
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