Andrew Wiles

Regius Professor of Mathematics & Abel Laureate, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

Mathematics

Standalone talks by Andrew Wiles

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

Fermat's Last Theorem: Abelian and Non-Abelian Approaches

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Mathematics·Public Colloquium

Fermat's Last Theorem: Abelian and Non-Abelian Approaches

Andrew Wiles·University of Oxford

Sir Andrew Wiles traces three centuries of number-theoretic attacks on Fermat's equation, from Kummer's cyclotomic ideals to elliptic curves and Galois representations.