Brian Conrad
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Brian Conrad is a mathematician and number theorist working at the University of Michigan but currently visiting Columbia University.
His most famous accomplishment is his work on proving the Taniyama–Shimura theorem. He proved this in 1999 with a team of others, while holding a postdoctoral position at Harvard University.
He did his earlier doctoral work under Andrew Wiles. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1996 with a dissertation entitled Finite Honda Systems And Supersingular Elliptic Curves. He was also featured as an extra in Nova's The Proof.
[edit] External links
- Homepage at University of Michigan
- On the modularity of elliptic curves over Q - Proof of Taniyama-Shimura coauthored by Conrad.
- Brian Conrad, Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor: Modularity of certain potentially Barsotti-Tate Galois representations, Journal of the American Mathematical Society 12 (1999), pp. 521–567. Also contains the proof.
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