Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

17 points by jackdoe 3 days ago

Full documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rxx

Aside: the AI summary of this attributes the wrong person. This is Andrew Wiles.

kurthr - an hour ago

Who solved FLT.

I've only skimmed it but Simon Singh's book on it seems reasonably accessible to non-experts

One interesting thing of FLT is Wiles is on record as saying it opened the door (I think. This is from memory) to Langlands Program, a series of mathematical connections

Harder problems of course exist, Riemann Hypothesis et al but FLT still took hundreds of years to solve

hingler36 - 32 minutes ago

I read Singh's book a few years ago, I really enjoyed it and left with a basic understanding of the underlying math
QuesnayJr - 19 minutes ago

You remember correctly. His result is a special case of Langlands.

pseudohadamard - a day ago

Just to check, this video isn't NSFW is it?

convolutedsoup - 16 minutes ago

This comment left me so bewildered that I wanted to create a hackernews account just to comment this.
- esafak - 3 minutes ago
  
  It might be a nerd joke, with a video title like "I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been".
jackdoe - a day ago

depends, I would say it is not safe for work as it makes you question what are you doing there :)
its phenomenology porn
ThrowawayTestr - an hour ago

YouTube generally doesn't allow that