Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

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• BinRoo 3 days ago
  Aside: the AI summary of this attributes the wrong person. This is Andrew Wiles.
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  • kurthr 1 hour ago
    Who solved FLT.
• alex1138 38 minutes ago
  I've only skimmed it but Simon Singh's book on it seems reasonably accessible to non-experts

  One interesting thing of FLT is Wiles is on record as saying it opened the door (I think. This is from memory) to Langlands Program, a series of mathematical connections

  Harder problems of course exist, Riemann Hypothesis et al but FLT still took hundreds of years to solve

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  • hingler36 31 minutes ago
    I read Singh's book a few years ago, I really enjoyed it and left with a basic understanding of the underlying math
  • QuesnayJr 18 minutes ago
    You remember correctly. His result is a special case of Langlands.
• pseudohadamard 1 day ago
  Just to check, this video isn't NSFW is it?
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  • convolutedsoup 15 minutes ago
    This comment left me so bewildered that I wanted to create a hackernews account just to comment this.
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    • esafak 2 minutes ago
      It might be a nerd joke, with a video title like "I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been".
  • jackdoe 1 day ago
    depends, I would say it is not safe for work as it makes you question what are you doing there :)

    its phenomenology porn
  • ThrowawayTestr 1 hour ago
    YouTube generally doesn't allow that