Date | Sep 18, 2019 |
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Speaker | Kenneth A. Ribet |
Dept. | University of California |
Room | 129-101 |
Time | 16:00-17:00 |
After recalling the statement of Fermat's Last Theorem, I will summarize the proof of the theorem that was finalized by Wiles+Taylor--Wiles in 1994 and published in 1995. Then I will recount some of the progress in the general subject ("modularity") since 1995 and discuss the possibility of streamlining the proof that is now a quarter-century old.