1 Genesis-What is Number Theory?
2 Review of the Prerequisite Material
3 Basic Concepts
4 Arithmetic in Relative Extensions
5 Geometry of Numbers
6 Analytic Methods
7 Arithmetic in Galois Extensions
8 Cyclotomic Fields
9 The Kronecker-Weber Theorem
10 Passage to Algebraic Geometry
11 Epilogue-Fermat’s Last Theorem
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Dr. J.S. Chahal is a professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University at Provo in Utah. He received his Ph. D. from the Johns Hopkins University and after spending a couple of years at the University of Wisconsin as a post doc, he joined Brigham Young University as an assistant professor where he has been ever since. For hobbies, he likes to hike for which Utah is a great place, and travel.
