Overview

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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Author:   Paulo Ribenboim
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2000 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.698kg
ISBN:  

9780387989112

ISBN 10:   0387989110
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   09 June 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The Fibonacci Numbers and the Arctic Ocean.- Representation of Real Numbers by Means of Fibonacci Numbers.- Prime Number Records.- Selling Primes.- Euler's Famous Prime Generating Polynomial and the Class Number of Imaginary Quadratic Fields.- Gauss and the Class Number Problem.- Consecutive Powers.- 1093.- Powerless Facing Powers.- What Kind of Number Is $$ \sqrt 2 ^{\sqrt 2 } $$ ?.- Galimatias Arithmeticae.

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From the reviews: MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS !the author is extremely knowledgeable in his subjects and the reader can profit from the wealth of material contained in this book. Therefore this book is a welcome reference for anyone interested both in trivia and in serious background material about popular topics in elementary number theory.

From the reviews: <p>MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS <p> a ]the author is extremely knowledgeable in his subjects and the reader can profit from the wealth of material contained in this book. Therefore this book is a welcome reference for anyone interested both in trivia and in serious background material about popular topics in elementary number theory.

The exposition is relaxed, with plenty of numerical examples, conjectures and other asides. Technicalities are largely avoided, so that a beginning graduate student could read and enjoy this without preparation. (D.R.Heath-Brown, zbMATH 0947.11001, 2022) From the reviews: MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS ...the author is extremely knowledgeable in his subjects and the reader can profit from the wealth of material contained in this book. Therefore this book is a welcome reference for anyone interested both in trivia and in serious background material about popular topics in elementary number theory.

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