Kummer’s Monument

Paulo Ribenboim
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Paulo Ribenboim: Jeffery Hall Queen’s University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Chapter Lecture V in 13 Lectures on Fermat’s Last Theorem, 1979, pp 75-91 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This lecture is about Kummer’s famous theorem: Fermat’s last theorem is true for every exponent p which is a regular prime. I will explain how Kummer arrived at the notion of a regular prime and show why his approach to the problem may be considered quite natural. In some sense, it forces itself on us.

Keywords: Prime Ideal; Principal Ideal; Irreducible Polynomial; Finite Abelian Group; Fractional Ideal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9342-9_5

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