In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem in number theory that had remained open ...

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As a boy, Wiles discovered Fermat’s Last Theorem and vowed to be the one to solve it. Decades later, already a Princeton professor, he set out on a secret mission to prove the Taniyama-Shimura ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...