Ken Ribet
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Kenneth Alan Ribet is an American mathematician working in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. He is known for the Herbrand–Ribet theorem and Ribet's theorem, which were key ingredients in
Kenneth A. Ribet in 2013
Andrew Wiles
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Sir Andrew John Wiles is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem,
Ken Ribet
…forms and the ℓ-adic representations of the absolute Galois group of the field of rational numbers." Ribet is credited with paving the way towards Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. In 1986, Ribet proved that the epsilon conjecture formulated by Jean-Pierre Serre was true, and thereby proved that…
Wiles in 2005
Czech stamp from 2000, celebrating Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Andrew Wiles in front of the statue of Pierre de Fermat in Beaumont-de-Lomagne in 1995, Fermat's birthplace in southern France