A report on Wiles' Cambridge lectures
Number Theory
2016-09-06 v1
Abstract
In lectures at the Newton Institute in June of 1993, Andrew Wiles announced a proof of a large part of the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture and, as a consequence, Fermat's Last Theorem. This report for nonexperts discusses the mathematics involved in Wiles' lectures, including the necessary background and the mathematical history.
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@article{arxiv.math/9407220,
title = {A report on Wiles' Cambridge lectures},
author = {Karl Rubin and Alice Silverberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9407220},
year = {2016}
}
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24 pages