This text provides an account of a key theory upon which the Taylor/Wiles proof of Fermat's last theorem is based. The book begins with an overview of the theor... » 

This text provides an account of a key theory upon which the Taylor/Wiles proof of Fermat's last theorem is based. The book begins with an overview of the theory of automorphic forms on linear algebraic groups and then covers the basic theory and recent results on elliptic modular forms. «