Abstract
Bernoulli numbers appear in the expression of sums of a fixed power of consecutive integers. These sums are intimately connected with the class number of cyclotomic fields.
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Ribenboim, P. (2001). Bernoulli Numbers. In: Classical Theory of Algebraic Numbers. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21690-4_18
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