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Sources

Primary Sources

Andrew Wiles – Original Paper

  • Title: Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem
  • Journal: Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 141, No. 3 (1995), pp. 443–551
  • Length: 109 pages
  • DOI/URL: doi.org/10.2307/2118559

Richard Taylor & Andrew Wiles

  • Title: Ring-theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras
  • Journal: Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 141, No. 3 (1995), pp. 553–572
  • Significance: Supplement to Wiles' main paper, contains the "Taylor-Wiles trick"

Secondary Sources

Nigel Boston – Textbook

  • Title: The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, 2003
  • Length: 140 pages, graduate level
  • URL: math.wisc.edu (archive)

Further Reading

  • Silverman, J.H.The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (Springer, 1986)
  • Diamond, F. & Shurman, J.A First Course in Modular Forms (Springer, 2005)
  • Cornell, G., Silverman, J.H. & Stevens, G. (eds.) – Modular Forms and Fermat's Last Theorem (Springer, 1997)
  • Singh, S.Fermat's Enigma (Walker & Company, 1997) – Popular science account