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...advisor's fault. He just arrived from Berkeley and appears to be a friendly and potentially helpful person...
Trautman is survived by a wife, Susanah Bailie;children William of Washington, D.C., Ann of NewYork City and Benjamin of Berkeley; and twograndchildren, Sarah and Alexander. The cause ofhis death was not released...
Florence J. Lin of the University of California at Berkeley (applied math); Catherine Magill-Solc of Harvard (molecular embryology); Patricia Cleary Miller of Rockhurst College (poetry); Debra C. Minkoff of Yale University (sociology); Virginia Newes of the Eastman School of Music (musicology); Hanna Papanek of Boston University (nonfiction); Ann Patchett, an independent writer (fiction and non-fiction) and Susan Power of the University of Iowa (fiction...
...greatest unsolved mystery of mathematics. Known as Fermat's Last Theorem, it has baffled number experts for more than 350 years. A handful of solutions have appeared over the centuries -- the latest in 1988 -- and then been retracted upon discovery of a flaw. But, says University of California, Berkeley, mathematician Kenneth Ribet, "Wiles has a first-rate reputation in the subject. He is careful, and he is methodical; he does very, very good work . . . and he presented beautiful arguments." Within an hour, electronic mail hailing the achievement began streaking across the globe to universities and research centers...
Wiles' solution comes at the theorem in a different way. What he actually proved was an important part of another math puzzle, known in the trade as the Taniyama Conjecture, which deals with the equations that describe mathematical objects known as elliptic curves. Just six years ago, Berkeley's Ribet demonstrated that proving this conjecture was tantamount to proving Fermat's Last Theorem. "What is amazing about Wiles' proof," says Boston, "is that while it built on previous attempts, Andrew realized how to put all these complicated pieces together...