Fermat’s Last Theorem

Abstract

The authors would like to give special thanks to N. Boston, K. Buzzard, and B. Conrad for providing so much valuable feedback on earlier versions of this paper. They are also grateful to A. Agboola, M. Bertolini, B. Edixhoven, J. Fearnley, R. Gross, L. Guo, F. Jarvis, H. Kisilevsky, E. Liverance, J. Manoharmayum, K. Ribet, D. Rohrlich, M. Rosen, R. Schoof, J.-P. Serre, C. Skinner, D. Thakur, J. Tilouine, J. Tunnell, A. Van der Poorten, and L. Washington for their helpful comments. Darmon thanks the members of CICMA and of the Quebec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar for many stimulating conversations on the topics of this paper, particularly in the Spring of 1995. For the same reason Diamond is grateful to the participants in an informal seminar at Columbia University in 1993-94, and Taylor thanks those attending the Oxford Number Theory Seminar in the Fall of 1995.