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Ken Ribet is the president of the American Mathematical Society. He played a key role in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

[Ken Ribet's home page](https://math.berkeley.edu/~ribet/)

[The AMS](https://www.ams.org/home/page)

[Ken's famous paper](https://math.berkeley.edu/~ribet/Articles/invent_100.pdf)

[The Wiles Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2118559?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)

[Numberphile video with Ken about his work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUN4NDVIfVI)

[Ken's 87 hair cuts](https://math.berkeley.edu/~ribet/Haircuts/)

[Simon Singh discusses Fermat's Last Theorem in a Numberphile video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiNcEguuFSA)

With thanks to

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