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Zbl 0947.11001
Ribenboim, Paulo
My numbers, my friends. Popular lectures on number theory. (English)
[B] New York, NY: Springer. ix, 375 p. DM 79.00; öS 577.00; sFr. 72.00; \sterling 27.00; \$ 39.95 (2000). ISBN 0-387-98911-0/pbk

This is a book of popular lectures on number theory. The chapter titles speak for themselves: The Fibonacci numbers and the Arctic Ocean, Representation of real numbers and means of Fibonacci numbers, Prime number records, Selling primes, Euler's famous prime generating polynomial, Gauss and the class number problem, Consecutive powers, 1093, Powerless facing powers, What kind of number is $\sqrt{2}^{\sqrt{2}}$?, Galimatias arithmeticae. \par The exposition is relaxed, with plenty of numerical examples, conjectures and other asides. Technicalities are largely avoided, so that a beginning graduate student could read and enjoy this without preparation.
[D.R.Heath-Brown (Oxford)]

MSC 2000:: *11-01 Textbooks (number theory)
11Axx Elementary number theory
11B39 Special numbers, etc.
11Nxx Multiplicative number theory

Keywords: popular lectures; Fibonacci numbers; primes; powers

Cited in: Zbl 1160.11001

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