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On 6 October Wiles asked three colleagues (including Gerd Faltings) to review his new proof, [19] and on 24 October 1994 Wiles submitted two manuscripts, "Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem" [4] and "Ring theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras", [5] the second of which Wiles had written with Taylor and proved that certain ...
Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory.He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. [1]
The title of one edition of the PBS television series NOVA, discusses Andrew Wiles's effort to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. "The Whole Story". 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)".
In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation a n + b n = c n for any integer value of n greater than 2. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 have been known since antiquity to have infinitely many solutions. [1]
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 ...
A few months after Andrew Wiles said he had proved Fermat's Last Theorem, Savant published the book The World's Most Famous Math Problem (October 1993), [27] which surveys the history of Fermat's Last Theorem as well as other mathematical problems.
One of the two papers containing the published proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a joint work of Taylor and Andrew Wiles. [10] In subsequent work, Taylor (along with Michael Harris) proved the local Langlands conjectures for GL over a number field. [11]
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]