first edition
1995
by TAYLOR Richard WILES Andrew
1995. First Edition. WILES, Andrew. Modular Elliptic Curves and Fermat's Last Theorem. WITH: WILES, Andrew and TAYLOR, Richard. Ring-Theoretic Properties of Certain Hecke Algebras. IN: Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 141, No. 3, pp. 443-572. (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 1995. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers. Housed in a custom three-quarter morocco clamshell box. $8800.First edition, in the journal Annals of Mathematics where it originally appeared, of Wiles' famous proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, which had confounded mathematicians for centuries.In a marginal note in the section of his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica (1621) (truncated)