MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM

DATE:	Thursday, September 21, 2000
TIME:	4:30 - 5:30 PM
PLACE:	LN 2205
SPEAKER:	Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell
TITLE:	Fermat's Last Theorem: From the 1600's to 1994.

Abstract

I'll give a historical survey of the progress on finding (or not finding!) diophantine solutions to the equation

xⁿ+yⁿ=zⁿ. I'll outline the recent developments linking solutions to Fermat's last theorem to elliptic curves and the (now proven) conjecture of Shimura and Taniyama.

R E F R E S H M E N T S

4:00 To 4:25 PM
Kenneth W. Anderson
Memorial Reading Room