Minimal prerequisite to reading Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem May I respectfully ask what the minimal background needed to read Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is?
I'm not an expert on number theory, but out of curiosity I wanted to understand - at a cursory level if possible - the outline of the proof.
Thank you to all responders in advance.
My background: Junior-year undergraduate in Theoretical Physics.
 A: Some of the big ideas and connections (with lots of pertinent references) are presented excellently in Fernando Q. Gouvea's "A Marvelous Proof"
A: Here is a good set of notes by Nigel Boston. I find them very readable and fairly self contained.
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~boston/869.pdf
A: I know about some good books on the direction:
First of all, the book Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Sin is a pretty good book with the most basic needed materials.
Next, the books 13 lectures on Fermat's last theorem and Fermat's last theorem for amateurs by Ribenboim are pretty well and contain advanced elements.
The last but not the least, the book Fermat's last theorem :a genetic introduction to algebraic number theory is an excellent book by Edwards Harold M which ad hoc adjoins a paper by Kummer, and although it doesn't really solve the problem it provides a well background for it, note that it was published before the theorem was formally proved in 1993.
In general, it is not easy to understand the proof or even to just outline it, while BBC program had produced a video about it to introduce this to the public. Perhaps we can better answer your question provided that you let us know how deeper you want to go in and how much you want to know about the proof exactly. Since you are a junior undergraduate in theoretical physics you must be good in analysis, but what about your algebra? Is it pretty good to go through this?
Anyway, thank you for paying attention.
A: This is a very hard proof to do for an undergraduate but there are books available. Tthe book "Invitation to Fermat Wiles"  (http://www.amazon.com/Invitation-Mathematics-Fermat-Wiles-Yves-Hellegouarch/dp/0123392519) is an exposition on the proof written for undergraduates for example.
A: Another book is Notes On Fermat's Last Theorem, by the late Alf van der Poorten. It stops well short of giving Wiles' proof, but still gives you some idea of what you're up against. 
A: This set of notes is covering the background and is comparable to Hellegouarche's book in scope. 
