Yutaka Taniyama

Yutaka Taniyama was a Japanese mathematician known for his work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He is particularly famous for the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture, which posits a deep relationship between elliptic curves and modular forms. This conjecture was a central part of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles in the 1990s.