Modular curves and Fermat’s theorem. (Czech) Zbl 0813.11016

Nekovář, Jan

Math. Bohem. 119, No. 1, 79-96 (1994).

This is a survey article on the link between the Taniyama conjecture and Fermat’s last theorem. It summarizes what was known in September 1993 (when the article was written) about Wiles’s announcement of a proof of Fermat’s last theorem.

Reviewer: J.Nekovář (Praha)

MSC:

11D41	Higher degree equations; Fermat’s equation
11G18	Arithmetic aspects of modular and Shimura varieties
11G05	Elliptic curves over global fields
14H52	Elliptic curves

Keywords:

modular curves; survey; Taniyama conjecture; Fermat’s last theorem