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Galois representations and modular forms
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In this article, I discuss material which is related to the recent proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem: elliptic curves, modular forms, Galois representations and their deformations, Frey’s construction, and the conjectures of Serre and of Taniyama-Shimura.
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  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 375-402
  • MSC: Primary 11F80; Secondary 11-02, 11D41, 11G05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00616-6
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