Invitation to the Mathematics of Fermat-Wiles

Yves Hellegouarch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2001
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-339251-0 (ISBN)

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Presents diverse concepts required to comprehend Fermat-Wiles' extraordinary proof. Placing these concepts in their historical context, this book contains several themes that could be developed by student research and numerous exercises and problems.

Assuming only modest knowledge of undergraduate level math, Invitation to the Mathematics of Fermat-Wiles presents diverse concepts required to comprehend Wiles' extraordinary proof. Furthermore, it places these concepts in their historical context.

This book can be used in introduction to mathematics theories courses and in special topics courses on Fermat's last theorem. It contains themes suitable for development by students as an introduction to personal research as well as numerous exercises and problems. However, the book will also appeal to the inquiring and mathematically informed reader intrigued by the unraveling of this fascinating puzzle.

Yves Hellegouarch studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has been teaching at the University of Caen since 1970. In 1972 he wrote a thesis, "Elliptic Curves and Fermat's Equation."

1. Paths
2. Elliptic Functions
3. Numbers and groups
4. Elliptic Curves
5. Modular Forms
6. New Paradigms, New Enigmas

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.9.2001
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	910 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
ISBN-10	0-12-339251-9 / 0123392519
ISBN-13	978-0-12-339251-0 / 9780123392510
Zustand	Neuware