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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566995
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Book Information:

Author: André Weil
Title: Ernst Edward Kummer, Collected Papers
Additional book information: Vol. I: Contributions to number theory, viii + 957 pp., $40.20, Vol. II: Function theory, geometry and miscellaneous, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1975, xi + 877 pp., $42.20.

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  • J. Myron Masley and Hugh L. Montgomery, Cyclotomic fields with unique factorization, J. Reine Angew. Math. 286(287) (1976), 248–256. MR 429824
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  • Kôji Uchida, Class numbers of imaginary abelian number fields, Seminar on Modern Methods in Number Theory (Inst. Statist. Math., Tokyo, 1971) Inst. Statist. Math., Tokyo, 1971, pp. 4. MR 0374092
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    K. Uchida, De numeris complexis, qui radicibus unitatis et numeris integris realibus constant, 1844 (republished, 1847), L (ampe) 20.
    11.
    K. Uchida, Über die Divisoren gewisser Formen der Zahlen, welche aus der Theorie der Kreistheilung entstehen, 1846, L 23.
    12.
    K. Uchida, Beweis des Fermat'schen Satzes der Unmöglichkeit von x + y, 1847, L 24.
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    K. Uchida, Über eine allgemeine Eigenschaft der rationalen Entwickelungscoefficienten einer bestimmten Gattung analytischer Functionen, 1851, L 38.
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    K. Uchida, Mémoire sur la théorie des nombres complexes composés de racines de l'unité et de nombres entiers, 1851, L 39.
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    K. Uchida, Über die Irregularität von Determinanten, 1853. Not in Lampe's bibliography!
    16.
    K. Uchida, Einige Sätze über die aus den Wurzeln der Gleichung a = 1 gebildeten complexen Zahlen, für den Fall, dass die Klassenzahl durch λ theilbar ist, nebst Anwendung derselben auf einen weiteren Beweis des letzten Fermat'schen Lehrsatzes, 1857, L 45.

    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Barry Mazur
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 976-988
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14343-7