Conjecture Connecting All Branches of Math

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I'm looking for the name of the optimistic conjecture that, if I remember correctly, conjectures the existence of a certain kind of connection between every branch of mathematics.

I read about it in Singh's book on Fermat's last theorem. Fueled by the enthusiasm following the discovery of a proof of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture connecting topology and number theory, this conjecture was made.
 
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What are other instance where two seemingly disconnected branches of mathematics intertwine as in the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture?

Can Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture be said to connect differential equations to algebraic topology in this way?