Book ID: CBB000772063

From Fermat to Gauss: Indefinite Descent and Methods of Reduction in Number Theory (2006)

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Bussotti, Paolo (Author)


E. Rauner Verlag


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: vii + 574 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Goldstein, Catherine
Fletcher, Colin R.
Ferraro, Giovanni
Corry, Leo
Bullynck, Maarten
Fermat, Pierre de
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Cahiers François Viète Center for Epistemology and History of Science and Technology (CFV)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific American
Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Publishers
Springer
Niedersächsische Staats- und Univ.-Bibl.
Blanchard
Concepts
Number theory; number concept
Mathematics
Computer science
Fermat's problem
Philosophy of mathematics
Algebra
People
Fermat, Pierre de
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Pell, John
Euler, Leonhard
Vandiver, Harry Schultz
Lehmer, Derrick Henry
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Germany
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