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This is a selection of expository essays by Paulo Ribenboim, the author of such popular titles as "The New Book of Prime Number Records" and "The Little Book of Big Primes". The book contains essays on Fibonacci numbers, prime numbers, Bernoulli numbers, and historical presentations of the main problems pertaining to elementary number theory, such as for instance Kummer's work on Fermat's Last Theorem. The essays are written in a light and humorous language without secrets and are thoroughly accessible to everyone with an interest in numbers.
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Fibonacci Numbers and the Arctic Ocean -- 2. Representation of Real Numbers by Means of Fibonacci Numbers -- 3. Prime Number Records -- 4. Selling Primes -- 5. Euler's Famous Prime Generating Polynomial and the Class Number of Imaginary Quadratic Fields -- 6. Gauss and the Class Number Problem -- 7. Consecutive Powers -- 8. 1093 -- 9. Powerless Facing Powers -- 10. What Kind of Number Is v2v2? -- 11. Galimatias Arithmeticae -- Index of Names.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.