From fermat to minkowski : lectures on the theory of numbers and its historical development
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TextLanguage: English Series: Undergraduate texts in mathematicsPublication details: New York Springer-Verlag 1985Description: xi, 184p. illISBN: - 3540909427 (HB)
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Includes index
Includes bibliographical references
1 The Beginnings 2 Fermat 3 Euler 4 Lagrange 5 Legendre 6 Gauss 7 Fourier 8 Dirichlet 9 From Hermite to Minkowski 10 A Preview of Reduction Theory
This book arose from a course of lectures given by the first author during the winter term 1977/1978 at the University of Münster (West Germany). The course was primarily addressed to future high school teachers of mathematics; it was not meant as a systematic introduction to number theory but rather as a historically motivated invitation to the subject, designed to interest the audience in number-theoretical questions and developments.
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