13 Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem
Author | : Paulo Ribenboim |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781468493429 |
ISBN-13 | : 1468493426 |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Lecture I The Early History of Fermat's Last Theorem.- 1 The Problem.- 2 Early Attempts.- 3 Kummer's Monumental Theorem.- 4 Regular Primes.- 5 Kummer's Work on Irregular Prime Exponents.- 6 Other Relevant Results.- 7 The Golden Medal and the Wolfskehl Prize.- Lecture II Recent Results.- 1 Stating the Results.- 2 Explanations.- Lecture III B.K. = Before Kummer.- 1 The Pythagorean Equation.- 2 The Biquadratic Equation.- 3 The Cubic Equation.- 4 The Quintic Equation.- 5 Fermat's Equation of Degree Seven.- Lecture IV The Naïve Approach.- 1 The Relations of Barlow and Abel.- 2 Sophie Germain.- 3 Co.