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Limits RegistryAndrew Wiles, with a key gap closed jointly with Richard Taylor, proved Fermat's Last Theorem, publishing the complete argument in the Annals of Mathematics in 1995. The proof works by establishing the modularity of semistable elliptic curves (via the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture) and connecting it to Fermat's equation through Ribet's theorem, closing a problem first stated by Pierre de Fermat in 1637.
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Andrew Wiles, with a key gap closed jointly with Richard Taylor, proved Fermat's Last Theorem, publishing the complete argument in the Annals of Mathematics in 1995. The proof works by establishing the modularity of semistable elliptic curves (via the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture) and connecting it to Fermat's equation through Ribet's theorem, closing a problem first stated by Pierre de Fermat in 1637.
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