Number theory : an approach through history from Hammurapi to Legendre
Indeed some of the most complex conventions of the mathematical mind have evolved from the study of basic problems of number theory.André Weil, one of the outstanding contributors to number theory, has written an historical exposition of this subject;
375 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780817645656, 0817645659
1025490152
Preface.- Table of illustrations.- Abbreviations, basic references and notations.- Protohistory.- Fermat and his Correspondents.- Euler.- An Age of Transition: Lagrange and Legendre.- Additional bibliography and references.- Index nominum.- Index rerum.
"Reprint of the 1984 edition."
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