Fermat's Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in the history of mathematics. Pierre de Feremat said "I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain.". Until 1995 there was not a proof of this theorem, although many had attempted, and some began to believe that it was impossible to prove. In case you are not familiar with Fermat's Last theorem it is stated here.
Andrew Wiles is the one who eventually proved this theorem. He said that it was his lifelong dream to prove this theorem. Here is a video that was made describing how he solved it.
Andrew Wiles Video
Andrew Wiles orriginal proof of the theorem had some gaps in it that were later corrected by him and Richard Taylor. The proof is published in two papers in May of 1995
Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem
Ring theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras
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