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Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields, Paperback by Washington, Lawrence C., Bran.... Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields, Paperback by Washington, Lawrence C., ISBN 1461273463, ISBN-13 9781461273462, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This text on a central area of number theory covers p-adic L-functions, class numbers, cyclotomic units, Fermat’s Last Theorem, and Iwasawa’s theory of Zp-extensions. This edition contains a new chapter on the work of Thaine, Kolyvagin, and Rubin, including a proof of the Main Conjecture, as well as a chapter on other recent developments, such as primality testing via Jacobi sums and Sinnott’s proof of the vanishing of Iwasawa’s f-invariant. Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields, Paperback by Washington, Lawrence C., ISBN 1461273463, ISBN-13 9781461273462, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This text on a central area of number theory covers p-adic L-functions, class numbers, cyclotomic units, Fermat’s Last Theorem, and Iwasawa’s theory of Zp-extensions. This edition contains a new chapter on the work of Thaine, Kolyvagin, and Rubin, including a proof of the Main Conjecture, as well as a chapter on other recent developments, such as primality testing via Jacobi sums and Sinnott’s proof of the vanishing of Iwasawa’s f-invariant.