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Fermat's last theorem

Professor Ribet of the Mathematics Dept. at the University of California, Berkeley summarizes the broad outlines of the proof of Fermat's last theorem. The proof depends on a construction of G. Frey which associated an implausible elliptic curve to each solution to Fermat's equation. A recent theorem of A. Wiles shows that the elliptic curve in question is "modular", i.e. is derived from a modular form. A theorem proved in 1986 allows one to obtain a contradiction ... it prevents the implausible elliptic curve from being modular.

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