Not to be confused with Serre's modularity conjecture.
Modularity theorem
Field
Number theory
Conjectured by
Yutaka Taniyama Goro Shimura
Conjectured in
1957
First proof by
Christophe Breuil Brian Conrad Fred Diamond Richard Taylor
First proof in
2001
Consequences
Fermat's Last Theorem
The modularity theorem (formerly called the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture or modularity conjecture for elliptic curves) states that elliptic curves over the field of rational numbers are related to modular forms in a particular way. Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor proved the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic curves, which was enough to imply Fermat's Last Theorem. Later, a series of papers by Wiles's former students Brian Conrad, Fred Diamond and Richard Taylor, culminating in a joint paper with Christophe Breuil, extended Wiles's techniques to prove the full modularity theorem in 2001.
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