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| Apr 14, 2010 at 18:16 | comment | added | elfking | @Qiaochu: True. As I said, I didn't know the deduction from Modularity Theorem itself is a theorem. Btw, does MT imply information about solutions of a certain class of equations, or is FLT really one-of-a-kind type of thing? | |
| Apr 14, 2010 at 17:27 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | @Qiaochu: Would you say that ZMT is a generalization of the Nullstellensatz? | |
| Apr 14, 2010 at 17:09 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I wouldn't call the modularity theorem a "generalization" of FLT; it's just a large and diffficult theorem that happens to imply FLT, and this implication is itself a theorem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribet%27s_theorem . I would reserve the term "generalization" for when the specialization can be obtained by specializing some universal quantifiers. | |
| Apr 14, 2010 at 16:58 | history | answered | elfking | CC BY-SA 2.5 |