05132nam 2200637 a 450 991096320490332120250715221517.01-61444-612-1(CKB)2670000000370898(EBL)3330440(SSID)ssj0001053205(PQKBManifestationID)11950353(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053205(PQKBWorkID)11103003(PQKB)11148277(Au-PeEL)EBL3330440(CaPaEBR)ebr10733083(OCoLC)857078215(RPAM)17746859(MiAaPQ)EBC3330440(EXLCZ)99267000000037089820130731d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLearning modern algebra from early attempts to prove Fermat's last theorem /Al Cuoco and Joseph J. Rotman1st ed.[Washington, D.C.] Mathematical Association of America20131 online resource (480 p.)AMS/MAA Textbooks,2577-1213 ;v. 23MAA textbooksDescription based upon print version of record.1-939512-01-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.""front cover ""; ""copyright page ""; ""title page ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Some Features of This Book""; ""A Note to Students""; ""A Note to Instructors""; ""Notation""; ""Early Number Theory""; ""Ancient Mathematics""; ""Diophantus""; ""Geometry and Pythagorean Triples""; ""The Method of Diophantus""; ""Fermat's Last Theorem""; ""Connections: Congruent Numbers""; ""Euclid""; ""Greek Number Theory""; ""Division and Remainders""; ""Linear Combinations and Euclid's Lemma""; ""Euclidean Algorithm""; ""Nine Fundamental Properties""; ""Connections""; ""Trigonometry""; ""Integration""""Induction""""Induction and Applications""; ""Unique Factorization""; ""Strong Induction""; ""Differential Equations""; ""Binomial Theorem""; ""Combinatorics""; ""Connections""; ""An Approach to Induction""; ""Fibonacci Sequence""; ""Renaissance""; ""Classical Formulas""; ""Complex Numbers""; ""Algebraic Operations""; ""Absolute Value and Direction""; ""The Geometry Behind Multiplication""; ""Roots and Powers""; ""Connections: Designing Good Problems""; ""Norms""; ""Pippins and Cheese""; ""Gaussian Integers: Pythagorean Triples Revisited""; ""Eisenstein Triples and Diophantus""""Nice Boxes""""Nice Functions for Calculus Problems""; ""Lattice Point Triangles""; ""Modular Arithmetic""; ""Congruence""; ""Public Key Codes""; ""Commutative Rings""; ""Units and Fields""; ""Subrings and Subfields""; ""Connections: Julius and Gregory""; ""Connections: Patterns in Decimal Expansions""; ""Real Numbers""; ""Decimal Expansions of Rationals""; ""Periods and Blocks""; ""Abstract Algebra""; ""Domains and Fraction Fields""; ""Polynomials""; ""Polynomial Functions""; ""Homomorphisms""; ""Extensions of Homomorphisms""; ""Kernel, Image, and Ideals""; ""Connections: Boolean Things""""Inclusion-Exclusion""""Arithmetic of Polynomials""; ""Parallels to Z""; ""Divisibility""; ""Roots""; ""Greatest Common Divisors""; ""Unique Factorization""; ""Principal Ideal Domains""; ""Irreducibility""; ""Roots of Unity""; ""Connections: Lagrange Interpolation""; ""Quotients, Fields, and Classical Problems""; ""Quotient Rings""; ""Field Theory""; ""Characteristics""; ""Extension Fields""; ""Algebraic Extensions""; ""Splitting Fields""; ""Classification of Finite Fields""; ""Connections: Ruler--Compass Constructions""; ""Constructing Regular n-gons""""Gauss's construction of the 17-gon""""Cyclotomic Integers""; ""Arithmetic in Gaussian and Eisenstein Integers""; ""Euclidean Domains""; ""Primes Upstairs and Primes Downstairs""; ""Laws of Decomposition""; ""Fermat's Last Theorem for Exponent 3 ""; ""Preliminaries""; ""The First Case""; ""Gauss's Proof of the Second Case""; ""Approaches to the General Case""; ""Cyclotomic integers""; ""Kummer, Ideal Numbers, and Dedekind""; ""Connections: Counting Sums of Squares""; ""A Proof of Fermat's Theorem on Divisors""; ""Epilog""; ""Abel and Galois""; ""Solvability by Radicals""; ""Symmetry""""Groups"""Learning Modern Algebra is designed for college students who want to teach mathematics in high school, but it can serve as a text for standard abstract algebra courses as well. [...] The presentation is organized historically: the Babylonians introduced Pythagorean triples to teach the Pythagorean theorem; these were classified by Diophantus, and eventually this led Fermat to conjecture his Last Theorem."--Publisher description.MAA TextbooksAlgebraAlgebra.512Cuoco Albert1831359Rotman Joseph J.1934-58666MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963204903321Learning modern algebra4403591UNINA