Notes on Fermat's Last Theorem

Alfred J. van der Poorten

Publisher:

John Wiley

Publication Date:

1996

Number of Pages:

240

Format:

Hardcover

Price:

111.50

ISBN:

978-0471062615

Category:

Monograph

BLL Rating:

BLL

The Basic Library List Committee suggests that undergraduate mathematics libraries consider this book for acquisition.

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Quasi-Historical Introduction.

Remarks on Unique Factorization.

Elementary Methods.

Kummer's Arguments.

Why Do We Believe Wiles?

More Quasi-History.

Diophantus and Fermat.

A Child'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.

Wiles' Proof.

Appendices.

Index.