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5282202 No.5282202 [Reply] [Original]

Does anyone on sci understand the proof of fermats last theorem? I'd like to see if sci could, perhaps, sketch a proof using our combined math knowledge

>> No.5282208

>>5282202
here is a sketch of it.
Gary_Cornell,_Joseph_H._Silverman,_Glenn_Stevens_Modular_forms_and_Fermats_last_theorem__1997

>> No.5282213

>>5282202

>Group representations
>Cohomology
This is my bag
>Modular group representations
>Hecke algebras
>Galois theory
I have done some but I'm nowhere near where I'd need to be other than to check
>Number theory
>Elliptic curves
I know very little

I have read the proof and understand some parts. I couldn't even begin to sketch it, though :(

Where should we start? Are we trying to explain this to a 9yo?

>> No.5282215

>>5282208
Heh, this is the book I read.
>long
>hard
>worth it...?

>> No.5282265

I think the proof itself is 100 pages or so

This theorem isnt the kind of thing thats proven in 1 day