This selection of expository essays by Paulo Ribenboim should be of interest to mathematicians from all walks. Ribenboim, a highly praised author of several popular titles, writes each essay in a light and humorous language without secrets, making them thoroughly accessible to everyone with an interest in numbers. This new collection includes essays on Fibonacci numbers, prime numbers, Bernoulli numbers, and historical presentations of the main problems pertaining to elementary number theory, such as Kummers work on Fermat's last theorem.
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There is indeed not much relation between the Fibonacci numbers and the Arctic Ocean, but I thought that this title would excite your curiosity for my lecture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
proper equivalence classes, consecutive powerful numbers, prime generating polynomial, many real quadratic fields, primitive prime factor, class number problem, prime number records, fundamental discriminant, principal genus, linear recurrence sequences, primitive factor, simple continued fraction expansion, greatest prime factor, class number one, irregularity index, whose prime factors, imaginary quadratic fields, many twin primes, many rational numbers, primitive representation, binary quadratic forms, many natural numbers, consecutive powers, asymptotic density, transcendental numbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Acta Arith, London Math, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Academic Press, Fermat's Little Theorem, Chelsea Publ, Norsk Mat, Opera Omnia, Cambridge Univ, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Mathematische Werke, Lecture Notes, Duke Math, Zur Theorie, Arctic Ocean, Cambridge Phil, Clarendon Press, Forenings Skrifter, Pure Math, Queen's University, The Little Book of Big Primes, Acta Sci, Annals of Math, Indian Math New!
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There is indeed not much relation between the Fibonacci numbers and the Arctic Ocean, but I thought that this title would excite your curiosity for my lecture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
proper equivalence classes, consecutive powerful numbers, prime generating polynomial, many real quadratic fields, primitive prime factor, class number problem, prime number records, fundamental discriminant, principal genus, linear recurrence sequences, primitive factor, simple continued fraction expansion, greatest prime factor, class number one, irregularity index, whose prime factors, imaginary quadratic fields, many twin primes, many rational numbers, primitive representation, binary quadratic forms, many natural numbers, consecutive powers, asymptotic density, transcendental numbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Acta Arith, London Math, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Academic Press, Fermat's Little Theorem, Chelsea Publ, Norsk Mat, Opera Omnia, Cambridge Univ, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Mathematische Werke, Lecture Notes, Duke Math, Zur Theorie, Arctic Ocean, Cambridge Phil, Clarendon Press, Forenings Skrifter, Pure Math, Queen's University, The Little Book of Big Primes, Acta Sci, Annals of Math, Indian Math New!
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- Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by Carl F. Gauss on 12 pages
- The New Book of Prime Number Records by Paulo Ribenboim on 6 pages
- The Book of Prime Number Records by Paulo Ribenboim on 6 pages
- Transcendental Number Theory (Cambridge Mathematical Library) by Alan Baker on 4 pages
- History of the Theory of Numbers (AMS Chelsea Publishing) Volumes I; II; III. THREE VOLUME SET (Vol. 2) by Leonard Eugene Dickson on page 177, page 205, and page 208
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- Aspects of Combinatorics and Combinatorial Number Theory by S. D. Adhikari in Back Matter
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