Work
With Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad in 1999, he proved the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, which previously had only been proved in a special case by Andrew Wiles and Taylor. Then he worked on the p-adic Langlands conjecture.
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