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An Introduction to the Deformation Theory of Galois Representations

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Modular Forms and Fermat’s Last Theorem

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Mazur, B. (1997). An Introduction to the Deformation Theory of Galois Representations. In: Cornell, G., Silverman, J.H., Stevens, G. (eds) Modular Forms and Fermat’s Last Theorem. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1974-3_8

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