Goro Shimura, 89, Mathematician RIP

[jya at pipeline.com (John Young)]

Goro Shimura, 89, Mathematician With Broad Impact, Is Dead

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/obituaries/goro-shimura-dead.html

"His insights led to tools widely used in modern cryptography."

"A proof of a form of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture would also 
prove Fermat's Last Theorem. In the 1990s, Andrew Wiles, then also at 
Princeton, figured out how to do just that, and Fermat's Last Theorem 
had finally been proved true.

Dr. Wiles, now at the University of Oxford in England, wrote in an 
email that the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture was "a fundamental pivot 
in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem." The proof also employed other 
key results of Dr. Shimura's research, he said."