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Ich habe versucht, den großen rechnerischen Apparat von Kummer zu vermeiden.
See §137 of the Zahlbericht or p. 182 of my book Fermat’s Last Theorem.
See “talks” at my website, math.nyu.edu/faculty/edwardsd/.
Bulletin of the AMS 44 (2007), 575–580
See “articles” at my website.
... die Beweise nicht durch Rechnung, sondern lediglich durch Gedanken zwingen soll.
Page 66 of volume 1 of Hilbert’s Gesammelte Abhandlungen.
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This paper is a revised version of a presentation written for the 5th International Conference on the History of Modern Mathematics, held in August 2019 at Northwest University in Xi’an, China. Unfortunately, an injury prevented the author from traveling to China, and the paper was presented in absentia.
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Edwards, H.M. The Role of History in the Study of Mathematics. Math Intelligencer 42, 66–69 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09947-y
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