主题：Fermat^’s Last Theorem

主讲人：Professor Kenneth Ribet，UC Berkeley

主持人：西南财经大学 尹庆双副校长

时间：2018年11月1日 下午14:00-16:00

地点：西南财经大学柳林校区弘远楼101

主办单位：西南财经大学 成都市金融工作局

承办单位：西南财经大学太阳成集团61999|欢迎莅临 科研处

主讲人简介：

Kenneth Ribet is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and the President of the American Mathematical Society.

Ribet studied at Brown University and Harvard University. He received his PhD in 1973 from Harvard, where his advisor was John Tate. After three years of teaching in Princeton and two years of research in Paris, Ribet joined the Berkeley faculty in 1978.

Ribet works in number theory and algebraic geometry. He is best known for his proof that Fermat's Last Theorem would follow logically from the modularity conjecture, then a well-known unproved conjecture about elliptic curves. When Andrew Wiles obtained cases of this conjecture in 1995, Wiles obtained Fermat's Last Theorem as a corollary because of Ribet's prior work.

Ribet is a member of the editorial boards of numerous book series and research journals. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997 and the US National Academy of Sciences in 2000. He was awarded the Fermat Prize in 1989 and received an honorary PhD from Brown University in 1998. He received the Brouwer medal from the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG) in 2017.

Ribet was inducted as a Vigneron d'honneur by the Jurade de Saint Emilion in 1988. He received his department's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985 and again in 2013.

内容摘要：

The first part of this talk will explain the statement of Fermat's Last Theorem and sketch out early attempts to prove the theorem and partial results in the direction of the theorem.

The second part of the talk will narrate how the theorem came to be proved in 1995 by Wiles and Taylor-Wiles.

In the third part of the talk the speaker will describe some of the structures of modern mathematics that intervened in the proof.