[paulddraper]

Yes and when it was first published it was wrong (made leap of logic).

It takes thorough review by advanced mathematicians to verify correctness.

This is not unlike a code review.

Most people vastly underestimate how complex and esoteric modern research mathematics are.

[adastra22]

The thing is though that MANY bugs slip through even the most thorough code reviews. As a security researcher, I can tell you there is literally no system out there that doesn't have such a bug in it.

The systems we deal with in software are massive compared with your typical mathematical framework though. But FLT is probably on similar scope.