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Gerhard Frey (mathematician)
German mathematician (born 1944)
- Life
- 1944 – present
- Born
- 1944
- Nationality
- Germany
Gerhard Frey is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. Following an original idea of Hellegouarch, he developed the notion of Frey–Hellegouarch curves, a construction of an elliptic curve from a purported solution to the Fermat equation, that is central to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
