Kenneth Ribet
Kenneth Ribet · Science & Medicine
Number theory; Ribet's theorem linking Fermat to modularity
1948, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
United States
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Kenneth Ribet is an American mathematician at UC Berkeley whose proof of the epsilon conjecture (Ribet's theorem) established that the Taniyama–Shimura modularity conjecture implies Fermat's Last Theorem, opening the path to Andrew Wiles's proof. He is a past president of the American Mathematical Society. He is Jewish.
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Number theory; Ribet's theorem linking Fermat to modularity
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