Fermat Meets SWAC: Vandiver, the Lehmers, Computers, and Number Theory

DOI10.1109/MAHC.2008.6zbMath1220.11001WikidataQ56852393 ScholiaQ56852393MaRDI QIDQ3525124

Leo Corry

Publication date: 10 September 2008

Published in: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Fermat's last theoremnumber theoryVandiverLehmerSWAC

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of number theory (11-03) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to number theory (11-04)

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