An anthology of articles designed to supplement a first course in number theory.
With a note scribbled in the margin of a book in the 1600s, Fermat set in motion centuries of effort spent unraveling this enigma. It would require 358 years and the development of entirely new fields of mathematics to provide a definitive solution to what is now recognized as o…
Second book in the Math Girls series, in which high school students discuss and solve mathematical problems, including explorations of number theory, abstract algebra, and methods of proof.
This book, together with the companion volume, Fermat's Last Theorem: The proof, presents in full detail the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem given by Wiles and Taylor. With these two books, the reader will be able to see the whole picture of the proof to appreciate one of the dee…
