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The Second Case of Fermat’s Last Theorem

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Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields

Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics ((GTM,volume 83))

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In Chapters 1 and 6 we treated the first case of Fermat’s Last Theorem, showing that there are no solutions provided certain conditions are satisfied by the class number.

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Washington, L.C. (1997). The Second Case of Fermat’s Last Theorem. In: Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 83. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1934-7_9

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