Modular Elliptic Curves and Fermat's Last Theorem

1995/05/01 by Andrew Wiles · 1 voice · 124 citations
Mathematics · #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #Analytic Number Theory Research #History and Theory of Mathematics

paper · doi:10.2307/2118559

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Abstract

When Andrew John Wiles was 10 years old, he read Eric Temple Bell’s The Last Problem and was so impressed by it that he decided that he would be the first person to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem. This theorem states that there are no nonzero integers a, b, c, n with n>2 such that a n + b n = c n. The object of this paper is to prove that all semistable elliptic curves over the set of rational numbers are modular. Fermat’s Last Theorem follows as a corollary by virtue of previous work by Frey, Serre and Ribet.

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