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Main article: Starting in mid-1986, based on successive progress of the previous few years of, and, it became clear that could be proven as a corollary of a limited form of the (unproven at the time and then known as the 'Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture'). The modularity theorem involved elliptic curves, which was also Wiles's own specialist area. The conjecture was seen by contemporary mathematicians as important, but extraordinarily difficult or perhaps impossible to prove.: 203–205, 223, 226 For example, Wiles's ex-supervisor states that it seemed 'impossible to actually prove',: 226 and Ken Ribet considered himself 'one of the vast majority of people who believed [it] was completely inaccessible', adding that 'Andrew Wiles was probably one of the few people on earth who had the audacity to dream that you can actually go and prove [it].' : 223 Despite this, Wiles, with his from-childhood fascination with Fermat's Last Theorem, decided to undertake the challenge of proving the conjecture, at least to the extent needed for.: 226 He dedicated all of his research time to this problem for over six years in near-total secrecy, covering up his efforts by releasing prior work in small segments as separate papers and confiding only in his wife.: 229–230 In June 1993, he presented his proof to the public for the first time at a conference in Cambridge.

He gave a lecture a day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with the title 'Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations.' There was no hint in the title that Fermat's last theorem would be discussed, Dr.

Finally, at the end of his third lecture, Dr. Wiles concluded that he had proved a general case of the Taniyama conjecture.

Then, seemingly as an afterthought, he noted that that meant that Fermat's last theorem was true. In August 1993, it was discovered that the proof contained a flaw in one area. Wiles tried and failed for over a year to repair his proof. According to Wiles, the crucial idea for circumventing, rather than closing this area, came to him on 19 September 1994, when he was on the verge of giving up. Together with his former student, he published a second paper which circumvented the problem and thus completed the proof.

Both papers were published in May 1995 in a dedicated volume of the. Awards and honours [ ]. Andrew Wiles before the statue of in (October 1995) Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem has stood up to the scrutiny of the world's other mathematical experts. Wiles was interviewed for an episode of the documentary series that focused on Fermat's Last Theorem. This was renamed 'The Proof', and it was made an episode of the US 's science television series. His work and life are also described in great detail in 's popular book. Wiles has been awarded a number of major prizes in mathematics and science: • Junior of the (1988) • Elected a • (1995) • (1995) • (1995/6) • from the National Academy of Sciences (1996) • (1996) • (1996) • (1997) • (1997) – see • A silver plaque from the (1998) recognising his achievements, in place of the, which is restricted to those under 40 (Wiles was 41 when he proved the theorem in 1994) • (1998) • (1999) • Pythagoras Award (Croton, 2004) • (2005) • The was named after Wiles in 1999.