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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Hellegouarch, Yves. Invitation to the mathematics of Fermat-Wiles. San Diego : Academic Press, ©2002 (DLC) 2001089851 (OCoLC)47726300 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Yves Hellegouarch |
ISBN: | 9780123392510 0123392519 0080478778 9780080478777 1281050407 9781281050403 9786611050405 661105040X |
OCLC Number: | 162572707 |
Language Note: | Translation of: Invitation aux mathématiques de Fermat-Wiles. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Paths -- Elliptic functions -- Numbers and groups -- Elliptic curves -- Modular forms -- New paradigms, new enigmas. |
Other Titles: | Invitation aux mathemátiques de Fermat-Wiles. |
Responsibility: | Yves Hellegouarch. |
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"This text provides a sweeping introduction to all those mathematical topics, concepts, methods, techniques, and classical results that are necessary to understand Andrew Wiles's theory culminating in the first complete proof of Fermat's last theorem. The text is accessible, without compromising the rigor of its mathematical exposition, to reasoned undergraduate students, at least so for the most part it can serve as the basis for various teaching courses. It sets the whole discussion in a fascinating, generally educating historical context, thereby travelling - metaphorically speaking - through the centuries of mathematical history. No doubt, it is a true blessing that the English translation of this unique book is now at hand for a much wider public." --Werner Kleinert (Berlin) in Zentralblatt MATH 1036 Read more...

