After Kummer, a New Light

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

Chapter Lecture VIII in 13 Lectures on Fermat’s Last Theorem, 1979, pp 139-164 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract I’ll report on the work of Mirimanoff, inspired by the last of Kummer’s papers. With his great ability, he refined Kummer’s treatment for the first case and obtained new congruences. On the other hand, due to the difficulty in achieving these comparatively meager improvements, it was obvious that no further progress would be forthcoming along these lines.

Keywords: Bernoulli Number; Prime Integer; Fermat Quotient; Closed Unit Interval; Mersenne Number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9342-9_8

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