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My Numbers, My Friends: Popular Lectures on Number Theory

By Paulo Ribenboim

Book information

Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Year
2000
ISBN
9780387989112, 0387989110
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2181699 bytes)
Pages
375\383
Time added
2021-03-27 19:07:24

Description

This is a selection of expository essays by Paulo Ribenboim, the author of such popular titles as "The New Book of Prime Number Records" and "The Little Book of Big Primes". The book contains essays on Fibonacci numbers, prime numbers, Bernoulli numbers, and historical presentations of the main problems pertaining to elementary number theory, such as for instance Kummer's work on Fermat's Last Theorem. The essays are written in a light and humorous language without secrets and are thoroughly accessible to everyone with an interest in numbers.

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