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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: My numbers, my friends
    sub title: popular lectures on number theory
  name:
    name part: Ribenboim, Paulo.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 375 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Paulo Ribenboim.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Number theory
  subject:
    topic: Nombres, Théorie des
  subject:
    topic: MATHEMATICS
    topic: Number Theory
  subject:
    topic: Number theory
  subject:
    topic: Electronic books
  subject:
    topic: Electronic books
  classification: QA241 .R467 2000eb
  classification: 512/.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: My numbers, my friends
    name:
      name part: Ribenboim, Paulo.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Springer, ©2000
    identifier: (DLC) 99042458
    identifier: (OCoLC)42061066
  identifier: 0387227547 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780387227542 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780387989112
  identifier: 0387989110
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 040331
    record change date: 20260420204356.0
    record identifier: in00003502260
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng