Announcement and Subsequent Developments
Wiles' proof was initially presented in 1993. It was finally accepted as correct, and published, in 1995, because of an error in one piece of his initial paper. His work was extended to a full proof of the modularity theorem over the following 6 years by others, who built on Wiles' work.
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