In due course André Weil, one of the godfathers of twentieth-century number theory, was to adopt the conjecture and publicize it in the West. Weil investigated the idea of Shimura and Taniyama, and found even more solid evidence in favor of it. As a result, the hypothesis was often referred to as the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture, sometimes as the Taniyama-Weil conjecture, and occasionally as the Weil conjecture. In fact there has been much debate and controversy over the official naming of the conjecture. For those of you interested in combinatorics there are fifteen possible permutations
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