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Fermat's Last Theorem for Amateurs

By Paulo Ribenboim

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1999
ISBN
0387985085, 9780387985084, 9780387216928
LCC
QA244 .R53 1999
Open Library ID
OL379135M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7521879 bytes)
Edition
Corrected
Pages
423\423
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-01-06 10:13:16

Description

This book is intended for amateurs, students and teachers. The author presents partial results which could be obtained with exclusively elementary methods. The proofs are given in detail, with minimal prerequisites. An original feature are the ten interludes, devoted to important topics of elementary number theory, thus making the reading of this book self-contained. Their interest goes beyond Fermat's theorem. The Epilogue is a serious attempt to render accessible the strategy of the recent proof of Fermat's last theorem, a great mathematical feat.

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