Here are some articles related to Fermat's Last Theorem. Be aware that there is some of overlap between categories. THE BIG THREE "On modular representations of Gal(Q-bar/Q) arising from modular forms", by Kenneth Ribet; Inventiones Mathematicae 100 (1990), pages 431-476. This article contained the first complete substantiation of Gerhard Frey's guess; it shows that Fermat's Last Theorem is implied by the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil Conjecture. "Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem," by Andrew Wiles; Annals of Mathematics, Volume 141 (1995), pages 443-551. This article contains most of the ideas developed by Wiles to prove the semi-stable case of the TSW conjecture (and with it Fermat's Last Theorem). "Ring-theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras", by Richard Taylor and Andrew Wiles; Annals of Mathematics, Volume 142 (1995), pages 553-572. This companion article proves the extra results that were needed in order to repair Wiles' flawed proof of 1993. BIOGRAPHICAL-HISTORICAL "Wiles Receives NAS Award in Mathematics"; Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 43 (July 1996), pages 760-763. Information on Wiles' early career. "Yutaka Taniyama and his time: very personal recollections", by Goro Shimura; Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 21 (1989), pages 186-196. Taniyama's life and work, as described by the colleague who knew him best. "Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement: Goro Shimura"; Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 43 (November 1996), pages 1343-1347. 1301-1307. Shimura's life and work. "Working with Numbers in the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries", by Catherine Goldstein; pages 344-371 in "A History of Scientific Thought", edited by Michel Serres, Blackwell (1995). Goldstein does great job comparing the different milieus in which Fermat and Kummer worked. "How Math Can Save Your Life", by Simon Singh; Math Horizons, February 1998, pages 5-7. Singh retells the famous story about Paul Wolfskehl. Too bad it's (probably) not true! See: "Paul Wolfskehl and the Wolfskehl Prize", by Klaus Barner; Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 44 (November 1997), pages 1294-1303. A different view of Paul Wolfskehl (from someone who ought to know). "Some history of the Shimura-Taniyama Conjecture", by Serge Lang; Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 42 (November 1995), pages 1301-1307. Lang doesn't think that Weil deserves to have his name attached to the conjecture; here he says why. NEWS STORIES "Fermat's Theorem", by James Gleick; The New York Times Magazine, October 3, 1993, pages 52-53. How Gleick can convey so much of the true nature of mathematics in less than a page and a half beats me! "The World's Most Famous Math Problem Has Finally Been Solved ... Or Has It?", by Marilyn vos Savant; Parade Magaine, November 21, 1993, page 10. For those who don't want to take the time to read her book, you can see here some of vos Savant's confusions, written in her usual breezy and engaging style. "Fame by Numbers", by Ian Katz, The Guardian Weekend, April 8, 1995, pages 34-42. This is one of the best popular-press accounts of the problem that I've seen. Katz is a lively writer who captures the personalities of the people in his story and gets the important mathematical and historical facts straight. "Andrew Wiles: A Math Whiz Battles 350-Year-Old Puzze", by Gina Kolata; Math Horizons, Winter 1993, pages 8-11. "Fermat's Last Stand", by Simon Singh and Kenneth A. Ribet; Scientific American, November 1997, pages 68-73. TECHNICAL-EXPOSITORY "Fermat's Last Theorem", by Harold M. Edwards; Scientific American, some year or other, pages 104-122. "Fermat's Last Theorem and Modern Arithmetic", by Kenneth A. Ribet and Brian Hayes; The American Scientist, Volume 82 (March-April 1994), pages 144-156. "Introduction to Fermat's Last Theorem", by David A. Cox; The American Mathematical Monthly, January 1994, pages 3-14. "A Marvelous Proof", by Fernando Q. Gouv\^ea; The American Mathematical Monthly, March 1994, pages 203-222. All three articles are worth reading. "Number Theory as Gadfly", by Barry Mazur, The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 98 (1991), pages 593-610. A great article for the general mathematician, explaining the attraction of number theory. "Polynomial Pursuits: Questioning Answers", by Barry Mazur; Quantum, volume 7, no. 3 (January 1997), pages 4-9,27. A great article for undergraduates or advanced high school students, introducing them to the joys of elliptic curves. TECHNICAL "From the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture to Fermat's last theorem", by Kenneath A. Ribet; Annales de la Facult\'e des Sciences de Toulouse Math. (5) 11 (1990), pages 116-139. This is heavy going, but it's the best available introduction to the part of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that is all too often neglected. "A report on Wiles' Cambridge lectures", by K. Rubin and A. Silverberg; Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 31 (1994), pages 15-38. "Fermat's Last Theorem", by Henri Darmon, Fred Diamond, and Richard Tayor; in Current Developments in Mathematics, 1995, International Press, pages 1-107. This article comes to me highly recommended. "The Shimura-Taniyama Conjecture (d'apre\`es Wiles)", by Henri Darmon; Mongraphies CICMA Lecture Notes 1994-02. "Galois representations and modular forms", by Kenneth Ribet; Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 32 (1995), pages 375-402. "An elementary introduction to the Langlands programme", by Stephen Gelbart; Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 10 (1984), pages 177-219. "Old and new conjectured Diophantine inequalities", by Serge Lang; Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 23 (1990), pages 37-75. I remember the lecture that Lang gave on this topic in the late 1980's; I came out with the wondering realization that I'd probably live to see FLT proved. See page 39 for a nice proof of "Fermat's Last Theorem for polynomials". Also see page 47 for one of Lang's famous diagrams, showing FLT "menaced" on all sides by arrows connecting it to mainstream conjectures. "Generalized non-abelian reciprocity laws: putting Wiles's achievement into context," by Avner Ash and Robert Gross; the amstex-source is available at http://fmwww.bc.edu/MT/gross/avner.tex.txt . OTHER "A generalization of Fermat's Last Theorem: The Beal Conjecture and prize problem", by R. Daniel Mauldin; Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 44 (December 1997), pages 1436-1437. The problem is not entirely new, but no one has ever offered money for it before. Review of "The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat, by M. S. Mahoney", by Andr\'e Weil; Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 79 (1973), pages 1138-1149. Weil's attack on Mahoney's book is a bit one-sided (in my opinion), but nearly all of his points are valid. Weil is not only one of the greatest living mathematicians but he is also a formidable historian. "Conjecture", by Barry Mazur; Synthese 111, pages 197-210 (1997). A marvelous explanation of the role of conjecture in modern number theory.