"Admittedly, Fermat's Last Theorem was always called a theorem and never a conjecture. But that is unusual, and probab…"

"The Wiles proof is a master symphony of the major mathematical themes that have evolved in this century: Hecke's theo…"

"FLT deserves a special place in the history of civilization. Because of its simplicity, it has tantalized amateurs an…"

"A substantial portion of Weil’s research was motivated by an effort to prove the Riemann hypothesis concerning the ze…"

"It tells us that they are very nicely distributed, about as evenly and as good as altogether possible. One cannot exp…"

"The dependence of so many results on Riemann's challenge is why mathematicians refer to it as a hypothesis rather tha…"

"In the spring of 1997, Connes went to Princeton to explain his new ideas to the big guns: Bombieri, Selberg and Sarna…"