H. J. S. Smith and the Fermat Two Squares Theorem

DOI10.2307/2589495zbMath1029.01006MaRDI QIDQ2757395

Francis Clarke, Lance L. Littlejohn, W. Norrie Everitt, S. J. Roelof Vorster

Publication date: 26 November 2001

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2589495

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractions; Fermat's two squares theorem; H.J.S. Smith

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

11A41: Primes