Saturday 30 May 2015

How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke

How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke

Andrew Wiles gave a series of lectures cryptically titled “Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves, and Galois Representations” at a mathematics conference in Cambridge, England, in June 0f 1993. His argument was long and technical. Finally, 20 minutes into the third talk, he came to the end.
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