My best friend from graduate school (which was the Harvard Math department at a time Wiles was an assistant professor) used to stay with me when he visited his

My best friend from graduate school (which was the Harvard Math department at a time Wiles was an assistant professor) used to stay with me when he visited his employer in NYC after moving to Israel. He would take an overnight flight and arrive, quite blearly, early in the morning. The day of a visit, the NYT had the story. And so I greeted him at the door to my apartment, not with my usual warm hello, but rather the words "Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem".