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512.7 (DDC 23)
Title
Catalan's Conjecture ([Ebook]) / by René Schoof.
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Schoof, René
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1.st ed.
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London : Springer London
, 2008.
Physical Details
IX, 124 p. 10 illus. : online resource.
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Universitext
0172-5939
ISBN
9781848001855
Summary Note
Eugène Charles Catalan made his famous conjecture â that 8 and 9 are the only two consecutive perfect powers of natural numbers â in 1844 in a letter to the editor of Crelle's mathematical journal. One hundred and fifty-eight years later, Preda Mihailescu proved it. Catalan's Conjecture presents this spectacular result in a way that is accessible to the advanced undergraduate. The first few sections of the book require little more than a basic mathematical background and some knowledge of elementary number theory, while later sections involve Galois theory, algebraic number theory and a small amount of commutative algebra. The prerequisites, such as the basic facts from the arithmetic of cyclotomic fields, are all discussed within the text. The author dissects both Mihailescu's proof and the earlier work it made use of, taking great care to select streamlined and transparent versions of the arguments and to keep the text self-contained. Only in the proof of Thaineâs theorem is a little class field theory used; it is hoped that this application will motivate the interested reader to study the theory further. Beautifully clear and concise, this book will appeal not only to specialists in number theory but to anyone interested in seeing the application of the ideas of algebraic number theory to a famous mathematical problem.:
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Introduction -- The case "q = 2" -- The case "p = 2" -- The non-trivial solution -- Runge's method -- Cassels' theorem -- An obstruction group -- Small p or q -- The Stickelberger ideal -- The double Wieferich criterion -- The minus argument -- The plus argument I -- Semi-simple group rings -- The plus argument II -- The density theorem -- Thaineâs theorem -- Appendix: Eulerâs theorem -- Bibliography -- Index.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-185-5
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Algebra
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General Algebraic Systems
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Number Theory
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