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Collector
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Thu Apr 03, 03 03:43 PM

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The Able price in math goes to Jean-Pierre Serre

http://www.abelprisen.no/pressemeldinger/engelsk.pdf

The norwegian goverment is happy to give him approx 1 mill usd!

Edited: Thu Apr 03, 03 at 04:10 PM by Collector

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The Able price in math goes to Jean-Pierre Serre

http://www.abelprisen.no/pressemeldinger/engelsk.pdf

The norwegian goverment is happy to give him approx 1 mill usd!

definitely Bourbaki spy.....brilliant.

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groups acting on trees...hmmmm....

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http://www.norway.org/newsofnorway/news.cfm?id=555

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most appropriate

J-P Serre is on my 'Top 10 20th Century' list as well

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I'm with you KR, although you have had more direct experience with his results.

Before I was wondering if the Nonius generators satisfied Serre relations. Nonius - you could writ ethe first FinMath paper with Dynkin diagrams.

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KR,

Can you explain what he [serre] did in FLT to conform Wiles' result? Was it something to do with the Tanayama-Shimura (sp?) conjecture that every elliptic curve is modular???

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My vague understanding is the following: Assuming a solution to Fermat, Frey constructed an elliptic curve which he thought was not modular. To prove this fact (the epsilon conjecture), it was enought for Ribet to prove a conjecture of Serre on Galois representations. Thus Frey, Ribet and Serre (and others) reduced Fermat to Taniyama-Shimura....the rest is history.

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