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Number Theory: Fermat’s Last Theorem
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Laubenbacher, Reinhard C. Pengelley, David |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | On June 24, 1993, the New York Times ran a front-page story with the headline “At Last, Shout of ‘Eureka!’ In Age-Old Math Mystery.” The proverbial shout of “Eureka!” had echoed across the campus of Cambridge University, England, just the day before. At the end of a series of lectures at a small conference on the arcane subjects of “p-adic Galois Representations, Iwasawa Theory, and the Tamagawa Numbers of Motives,” Princeton mathematician Andrew Wiles mentioned, almost as an afterthought, that the results he had presented implied, as a corollary, that Fermat’s Last Theorem was true. Via telephone and electronic mail, the news of what many mathematicians called the most exciting event in twentieth-century mathematics spread around the globe almost instantly. We will return to these developments again at the end of this introductory section. |
| Starting Page | 156 |
| Ending Page | 203 |
| Page Count | 48 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4612-0523-4_4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://sofia.nmsu.edu/~history/book/numbertheory.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.math.nmsu.edu/~history/book/numbertheory.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0523-4_4 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
