Quasi-historical introduction The cases n =2 and n =4.The Parisian Academy in the 1840s. Notes: Some details. Descent.Algebraic numbers and integers. Remarks on unique factorizationA digression. Notes:Continued fractions.Plagiarism. Elementary methods Sophie Germain, Abel‘s formulas, Mirimanoff-Wieferich,.. Notes: Fermat‘s Theorem.Bernoulli numbers. Euler-Maclaurin. Pseudoprimes. Fermat numbers. Mersenne primes. Cranks. Kummer‘s arguments Proof of the FLT for regular primes. Notes: Some remarks for undergraduates on elementary algebra. Equivalence relations. Why do we believe Wiles? More quasi-historyRantings. Work on the FLT this century. Notes: Euler‘s conjecture. The growing of the ‘gap”. Diophantus and Fermat What the study of diophantine equations is really all about. Notes: The chord and tangent method.Examples. A child‘s introduction to elliptic functions For a precocious child. Notes: Discriminants. Local and global Some remarks on p-adic numbers. Notes: The Riemann C-function.Much more on p-adic numbers. Curves Particularly,about elliptic curves. Notes: Minimal model. Semisimplicity of the Frey curve. Birational equivalence. Modular forms Some formulas and assertions. Notes: More formulas.The discriminant function. The Modularity ConjectureAn attempt at an explanation. Notes: What‘s in a name? The functional equation Poisson summation: 9-functions. Notes: Details. Hecke operators. Zeta functions and L-series Introduction to the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectures. Notes: Hasse‘s Theorem. The ABC-Conjecture Darmon and Granville‘s Generalized Fermat Equation. Notes: Hawkins primes.The Generalized Fermat Conjecture. Heights Remarks on the Mordell-Weil Theorem. Notes: Lehmer‘s Question. Elliptic curves of high rank. Class number of imaginary quadratic number fieldsThe proof of Goldfeld-Gross-Zagier. Notes: Composition of quadratic forms. Tate-Shafarevitch group. Jacobian. Heegner points. Wiles‘proof Not the commutative algebra, of course.
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