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Going Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem

Posted by Hemos on from the advancing-the-field-of-knowledge dept.

amjith writes "An Indian mathematician, Chandrashekhar Khare, is poised to make a significant breakthrough in the field of number theory with his solution of part of a major outstanding problem in algebraic number theory. He is currently an associate professor in Mathematics Department of University of Utah. "

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  1. What is it about? by ghoti · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Could somebody explain what this is about, and what this would mean? There isn't any concrete information on that in TFA ...

    Besides, this is kinda vaporware. Why is this even news? Why not talk about it once it's done?

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  2. Serre Conjecture by 00squirrel · · Score: 4, Interesting
    More info about the Serre Conjecture can be found here.

    Pretty exciting stuff! (Relatively speaking, of course :-)