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A report on Wiles' Cambridge lectures

Karl Rubin, Alice Silverberg

math.NTarXiv:math/9407220

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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