This has been a strong motivating force for 30 years of intense work in arithmetic algebraic geometry. Fundamental work of Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor established the conjecture for a large class of elliptic curves. Wiles combined these results with a theorem of Ribet, and work of many others, to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Christophe Breuil, Brian Conrad, Fred Diamond, and Richard Taylor are preparing a paper that proves the modularity conjecture for all elliptic curves. The argument follows the general outline of the work of Wiles and Taylor, though there are many technical details.
Introductory calculus is an initiation rite experienced by hundreds of our first year students.
We have been fortunate that the oversight of the introductory calculus program is in the hands of one our own graduates who also happens to be a formidable teacher who brings many special gifts to this important program and to her own students in the courses that she teaches. She joins Marc Brettler, the winner of the Walzer Award for Teaching in 1991, as the only other Brandeis alum to be the recipient of one of these coveted prizes. She should win more teaching awards. We have only one for her, the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Graduate Student Teaching Prize Winners.