Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century From PNT to FLT /

• Main Author: Narkiewicz, Władysław (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2012.
• Series: Springer Monographs in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Number theory.; Number Theory.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

The last one hundred years have seen many important achievements in the classical part of number theory. After the proof of the Prime Number Theorem in 1896, a quick development of analytical tools led to the invention of various new methods, like Brun's sieve method and the circle method of Ha...

Table of Contents:

• The Heritage
• The First Years
• The Twenties
• The Thirties
• The Forties and Fifties
• The Last Period
• Fermat's Last Theorem.