Nick Katz
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Nick Katz (Nicholas M. Katz) is an American mathematician, working in the fields of algebraic geometry, particularly on p-adic methods, monodromy and moduli problems, and number theory.
He was a student of Bernard Dwork and then spent time in France, at IHES and Orsay, where he adapted methods of scheme theory and category theory to the theory of modular forms. Subsequently he has applied geometric methods to various exponential sums. Mathematician and cryptographer Neal Koblitz was one of Katz's students.
He played a significant role as a sounding-board for Andrew Wiles when Wiles was developing in secret his proof of Fermat's last theorem.
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