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On the Applications of Cyclotomic Fields in Introductory Number Theory
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https://doi.org/10.5070/BS3171016284Abstract
In this essay, we study and comment on two number theoretical applications on prime cyclotomic fields (cyclotomic fields obtained by adjoining a primitive p-th root of unity to Q, where p is an odd prime). We begin by giving a simplified proof of Kummer's case of Fermat's Last Theorem obtained by linking different versions of the proof in different textbooks. We finally modernize Dirichlet's solution to Pell's Equation.