Berkeley Scientific Journal

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.