Washington, Lawrence C.  <br/><br/>
Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields/ 
Lawrence C. Washington  
 - 2nd Ed. 
 - New York:  Springer,  ©1997. 
 - xiv, 487p. 
 - Graduate Texts in Mathematics .
<br/><br/> 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 Z_p-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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0387947624 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cyclotomic Fields
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>512.74   / WasI