June 7, 1996

The team's first attempt to open the wormhole failed.

There was so much we did not know about the nature of wormholes and sliding. While disappointed, I knew that this endeavour can take months or even years before we sent the first explorer to another Universe.

In the meantime, I went to catch up on reading Semitstable Elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor.

In my world, I had attended a sderies of lectures in Cambridge University in 1993, done by my world's Professor Wiles, regarding Galois represenations, modular forms, and semistable elliptic curves. At the end of the lecture, he stated that all semistable elliptic curves are modular and added to what we already knew, this proved Fermat's Last Theorem.

A few months later, flaws were found in his proof. I took a week at it, hoping to finish the proof and solve Fermat's Last Theorem, but I had so many other priorities that I had to leave it to Wiles- or perhaps some amateur mathematician somewhere on Earth.

It happened more or less the same way on this world. I wondered if the Andrew Wiles on my world also solved Fermat's Last Theorem.

This was my first opportunity to actually read the proof. Last year I visited a world where what I know as Fermat's Last Theorem was solved over ten years ago, but the timer didn't give me enough time to download a copy of the proof.

One mystery is solved.

Maybe we will open the wormhole soon.

(I wish my journal had enough pages for me to write down Wiles's proof.)