Overview
- Ribenboim's presentation of attempts to solve Fermat's Last Theorem sheds new light on the possibilities and power of the language of mathematics
- This book is intended for amateurs. All results presented were obtained with exclusively elementary methods; proofs are given in detail with minimal prerequisites
- Original features are the ten interludes, devoted to important topics of elementary number theory, thus making this book self-contained
- The Epilogue is a serious attempt to render accessible the strategy of Wiles recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a great mathematical feat
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"The history of elementary approaches to Fermat is very rich indeed, and Ribenboim has arranged these approaches in a way that makes them accessible to interested readers without extensive mathematical backgrounds…both readable and fairly comprehensive. This book would likely be of great interest to an enthusiastic undergraduate with a basic knowledge of rings and fields. In addition to describing the history of one of the great problems in number theory, the book provides a gentle and well-motivated introduction to some important ideas in modern number theory…any reader who spends a few hours with this book is guaranteed to learn something new and interesting about Fermat’s last theorem."
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Book Title: Fermat’s Last Theorem for Amateurs
Authors: Paulo Ribenboim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b97437
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98508-4Published: 11 February 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7286-9Published: 14 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-21692-8Published: 21 January 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 407
Topics: Number Theory