books by Paulo Ribenboim

books by Paulo Ribenboim

books:

Paulo Ribenboim

My Numbers, My Friends
Paulo Ribenboim

Springer, 2000

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 ...

The New Book of Prime Number Records

Paulo Ribenboim

Springer, 1996

Great, but seriously misrepresented
This is a fascinating and arguably essential book for mathematically-sophisticated people who want a rigorous overview of prime numbers and related aspects of number theory. It's widely cited in other books, which is how I found it. The title sounds like it's just ...

Fermat's Last Theorem for Amateurs

Paulo Ribenboim

Springer, 2000

An excellant work, good for any serious study of FLT.
I am a math instructor and graduate student at PVAMU, and am working on a thesis detailing the history of attempts to prove and the Wiles proof of FLT. The text was easily readable and the proofs were very well done. I was able to follow the logic and math of all the ...

The Little Book of Big Primes

Paulo Ribenboim

Springer, 1991

This is an obsolete edition.
Hasn't this book been replaced by the 2nd edition, 1998, same publisher?

Classical Theory of Algebraic Numbers

Paulo Ribenboim

Springer, 2001

Good Book!
If you are the type of person who likes essayistic portrayals of mathematical theories and hence finds yourself tending toward those books that waste your time explaining every little detail, then yes you will not enjoy this book. Ribenbiom's book, like that of ...

13 Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem
Paulo Ribenboim

Springer, 1979

Gesammelte Abhandlungen Collected Papers
Wolfgang Krull

Walter de Gruyter, 1999

The Book of Prime Number Records

Paulo Ribenboim

Springer, 1988

The place to go to learn about the prime numbers
Few mathematicians, recreational or otherwise, lack an affection for the prime numbers and their properties. With the added charm that not many areas have fewer applications, this is one that has seen significant advances made by "amateurs." In particular, the ...