Modular Forms and Diophantine Questions
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This article discusses many of the topics that I touched on during my Public Lecture at the National University of Singapore and my Lecture to Schools at Victoria Junior College. During the former lecture, I spoke in broad terms about the history of Fermat’s Last Theorem and about the connection between Fermat’s Last Theorem, and the conjecture—now a theorem!—to the effect that elliptic curves are related to modular forms. In my Lecture to Schools, I discussed questions that have been sent to me by students and amateur mathematicians.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001