Goro Shimura did not prove Fermat’s Last Theorem. But without his work, the theorem might still be a conjecture.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/obituaries/goro-shimura-dead.html …
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Shimura, on being informed Wiles had proven the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture: "I told you so."
That's from the BBC documentary. I watched that and couldn't figure out with confidence what Shimura meant since we don't hear the interviewer asking the question or following up.
