noun
Taniyama-Shimura conjecture
Former name of the modularity theorem in mathematics. Now more commonly referred to as the modularity theorem.
谷山志村予想は、フェルマーの最終定理の証明に重要な役割を果たした。
The Taniyama-Shimura conjecture played an important role in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
The modern standard name for the theorem; 谷山志村予想 is the historical name.
Named after Japanese mathematicians Yutaka Taniyama and Goro Shimura, who proposed the conjecture in the 1950s.