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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b11731861.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Fibonacci Numbers and the Arctic Ocean -- Representations of Real Numbers by Means of Fibonacci Numbers -- Prime Number Records -- Selling Primes -- Euler's Famous Polynomial and the Class Number of Imaginary Quadratic Fields -- Gauss and the Class Number Problem -- Consecutive Powers -- 1093 -- Powerless Facing Powers -- The Classical Bernoulli Numbers -- Galimatias Arithmetica -- The Work of Kummer on Fermat's Last Theorem -- An Essay on Irrational Numbers.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "ix, 375 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0387989110 (sc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Springer,".
- catalog subject "512/.7 21".
- catalog subject "Mathematics.".
- catalog subject "Number theory.".
- catalog subject "QA241 .R467 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Fibonacci Numbers and the Arctic Ocean -- Representations of Real Numbers by Means of Fibonacci Numbers -- Prime Number Records -- Selling Primes -- Euler's Famous Polynomial and the Class Number of Imaginary Quadratic Fields -- Gauss and the Class Number Problem -- Consecutive Powers -- 1093 -- Powerless Facing Powers -- The Classical Bernoulli Numbers -- Galimatias Arithmetica -- The Work of Kummer on Fermat's Last Theorem -- An Essay on Irrational Numbers.".
- catalog title "My numbers, my friends : popular lectures on number theory / Paulo Ribenboim.".
- catalog type "text".