Notes on Fermat's last theorem /

Notes on Fermat's last theorem /

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Author / Creator:Van Der Poorten, A. J.
Imprint:New York : J. Wiley, c1996.
Description:xv, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Canadian Mathematical Society series of monographs and advanced texts
Subject:
Fermat's last theorem.
Fermat's last theorem.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2458706
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ISBN:0471062618 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Quasi-Historical Introduction
  • Remarks on Unique Factorization
  • Elementary Methods
  • Kummera??s Arguments
  • Why Do We Believe Wiles?More Quasi-History
  • Diophantus and Fermat
  • A Childa??s Introduction to Elliptic Functions
  • Local and Global
  • Curves
  • Modular Forms
  • The Modularity Conjecture
  • The Functional Equation
  • Zeta Functions and L-Series
  • The ABC-Conjecture
  • Heights
  • Class Number of Imaginary Quadratic Number Fields
  • Wilesa??
  • Proof
  • Appendices
  • Index

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