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Beschreibung
Eugène Charles Catalan made his famous conjecture ¿ that 8 and 9 are the only two consecutive perfect powers of natural numbers ¿ 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 author dissects both Mihailescüs 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 Thaine¿s 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.
Eugène Charles Catalan made his famous conjecture ¿ that 8 and 9 are the only two consecutive perfect powers of natural numbers ¿ 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 author dissects both Mihailescüs 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 Thaine¿s 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.
Zusammenfassung

Provides complete proofs of a spectacular recent result in number theory

Accessible to the non-specialist: requires little more than a basic mathematical background and some knowledge of elementary number theory

Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Case "q = 2".- The Case "p = 2".- The Nontrivial 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.- Semisimple Group Rings.- The Plus Argument II.- The Density Theorem.- Thaine's Theorem.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Fachbereich: Arithmetik & Algebra
Genre: Importe, Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Universitext
Inhalt: ix
124 S.
10 s/w Illustr.
124 p. 10 illus.
ISBN-13: 9781848001848
ISBN-10: 1848001843
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 12223275
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schoof, René
Hersteller: Springer
Springer London
Springer-Verlag London Ltd.
Universitext
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 235 x 155 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: René Schoof
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2008
Gewicht: 0,219 kg
Artikel-ID: 101852165

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