Problems Solved Recently
- Gromov's problem on distortion of knots (John Pardon, 2011)
- Circular law (Terence Tao and Van H. Vu, 2010)
- Hirsch conjecture (Francisco Santos Leal, 2010)
- Serre's modularity conjecture (Chandrashekhar Khare and Jean-Pierre Wintenberger, 2008)
- Heterogeneous tiling conjecture (squaring the plane) (Frederick V. Henle and James M. Henle, 2007)
- Road coloring conjecture (Avraham Trahtman, 2007)
- The Angel problem (Various independent proofs, 2006)
- The Langlands–Shelstad fundamental lemma (Ngô Bảo Châu and Gérard Laumon, 2004)
- Stanley–Wilf conjecture (Gábor Tardos and Adam Marcus, 2004)
- Green–Tao theorem (Ben J. Green and Terence Tao, 2004)
- Cameron–Erdős conjecture (Ben J. Green, 2003, Alexander Sapozhenko, 2003, conjectured by Paul)
- Strong perfect graph conjecture (Maria Chudnovsky, Neil Robertson, Paul Seymour and Robin Thomas, 2002)
- Poincaré conjecture (Grigori Perelman, 2002)
- Catalan's conjecture (Preda Mihăilescu, 2002)
- Kato's conjecture (Auscher, Hofmann, Lacey, McIntosh, and Tchamitchian, 2001)
- The Langlands correspondence for function fields (Laurent Lafforgue, 1999)
- Taniyama–Shimura conjecture (Wiles, Breuil, Conrad, Diamond, and Taylor, 1999)
- Kepler conjecture (Thomas Hales, 1998)
- Milnor conjecture (Vladimir Voevodsky, 1996)
- Fermat's Last Theorem (Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor, 1995)
- Bieberbach conjecture (Louis de Branges, 1985)
- Princess and monster game (Shmuel Gal, 1979)
- Four color theorem (Appel and Haken, 1977)
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