Fermat's Last Theorem

Before beginning the derivation of Kummer's class formula for cyclotomic integers , it is necessary to review one important property fro...

To move ahead on Kummer's class number formula for ideal numbers, it is necessary to review the proof for the convergence of Euler's...

Bernhard Riemann was born in the Kingdom of Hanover (now, Germany) on September 17, 1826. He was the second of six children. He was home s...

Leonhard Euler used the Bernoulli numbers to generalize his solution to the Basel Problem . This is the problem that put Euler on the map m...

In today's blog, I introduce Bernoulli polynomials and show how they can be used to present an even shorter version of the summation for...

In my previous blog , I defined the Bernoulli numbers using a recurrence relation: In today's blog, I will show how the Bernoulli numbe...

The Bernoulli numbers were first identified by Jakob Bernoulli in Ars Conjectandi , a work that was published after his death. The Bernoull...