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Criteria for Complete Intersections

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Modular Forms and Fermat’s Last Theorem

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In this paper we discuss two results in commutative algebra that are used in A. Wiles’s proof that all semi-stable elliptic curves over Q are modular [11].

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  1. Bart De Smit
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  2. Karl Rubin
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  3. René Schoof
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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06268, USA

    Gary Cornell

  2. Department of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

    Joseph H. Silverman

  3. Department of Mathematics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Glenn Stevens

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De Smit, B., Rubin, K., Schoof, R. (1997). Criteria for Complete Intersections. In: Cornell, G., Silverman, J.H., Stevens, G. (eds) Modular Forms and Fermat’s Last Theorem. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1974-3_11

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