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Andrew Wiles in front of the statue of Pierre de Fermat in Beaumont-de-Lomagne in 1995, Fermat's birthplace in southern France. Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem has stood up to the scrutiny of the world's other mathematical experts. Wiles was interviewed for an episode of the BBC documentary series Horizon [27] about
Sir Andrew John Wiles. Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles of a special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. Together with Ribet's theorem, it provides a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem. Both Fermat's Last Theorem and the modularity theorem were believed to be impossible to ...
The mathematician Andrew Wiles, who solved Fermat's Last Theorem, next to the statue of Pierre de Fermat in Beaumont-de-Lomagne. The mathematician Pierre de Fermat, famous for Fermat's Last Theorem, was born in the town on 17 August 1601/1607/1608 (the exact year is unknown). [4]
Edited version of 2,000-word essay published in Prometheus magazine, describing Andrew Wiles's successful journey. "Documentary Movie on Fermat's Last Theorem (1996)". Simon Singh and John Lynch's film tells the enthralling and emotional story of Andrew Wiles. "Fermat's Last Theorem". Podcast of BBC by Melvin Bragg and several outstanding ...
Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor proved the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic curves, which was enough to imply Fermat's Last Theorem. Later, a series of papers by Wiles's former students Brian Conrad , Fred Diamond and Richard Taylor, culminating in a joint paper with Christophe Breuil , extended Wiles's techniques to prove the full ...
In the United States, the book was released as Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem. [1] [3] The book was released in the United States in October 1998 to coincide with the US release of Singh's documentary The Proof about Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. [2] [7]
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Upon hearing of Ribet's success, Andrew Wiles, an English mathematician with a childhood fascination with Fermat's Last Theorem, and who had worked on elliptic curves, decided to commit himself to accomplishing the second half: proving a special case of the modularity theorem (then known as the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture) for semistable ...