Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.answers,news.answers Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!ames!hookup!torn!watserv3.uwaterloo.ca!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!neumann.uwaterloo.ca!alopez-o From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) Subject: sci.math FAQ: Table of Contents Summary: Part 2 of many, New version Originator: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Message-ID: Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:13:47 GMT Expires: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:55:55 GMT Reply-To: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: neumann.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Followup-To: sci.math Lines: 97 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu sci.math:124416 sci.answers:3443 news.answers:57848 Archive-name: sci-math-faq/tableofcontents Last-modified: Apr 04, 1995 Version: 6.2 Contents * Contents * Introduction + Why a list of Frequently Asked Questions? + Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics? * Fermat's Last Theorem + History of Fermat's Last Theorem + What is the current status of FLT? + Wiles' line of attack + If not, then what? o What has been proved o Conjectures + Did Fermat prove this theorem? * Prime Numbers + Largest known Mersenne prime + Largest known prime + Largest known twin primes + Largest Fermat number with known factorization + Algorithms to factor integer numbers + List of record numbers + What is the current status on Mersenne primes? + Formulae to compute prime numbers * What are numbers? + Introduction + Construction of the Number System + Construction of N + Construction of Z + Construction of Q + Construction of R + Construction of C + Rounding things up + What's next? * Special Numbers and Functions + How to compute digits of pi ? + Indiana bill sets the value of pi to 3 + Euler's formula: e^(i pi) = -1 + What is 0^0 + Why is 0.9999... = 1 ? + Name for f(x)^(f(x)) = x * Names of Large Numbers * Unsolved Problems + Does there exist a number that is perfect and odd? + Collatz Problem + Goldbach's conjecture + Twin primes conjecture * Symbolic Computation Packages * Fields Medal + Historical Introduction + Table of Awardees * Famous Problems in Mathematics + The Four Colour Theorem + The Trisection of an Angle * Mathematical Games + The Monty Hall problem + Master Mind * Projective plane of order 10 * The Axiom of Choice + Relevance of the Axiom of Choice + Cutting a sphere into pieces of larger volume * The Continuum Hypothesis * Theory of quaternionic analytic functions * Mathematical Oddities + Erdos Number + Why is there no Nobel in mathematics? + Who is N. Bourbaki? * Which are the 23 Hilbert Problems? * Formulas of General Interest + How to determine the day of the week, given the month, day and year + Formula for the Surface Area of a sphere in Euclidean N -Space + Formula to compute compound interest. * General Bibliography and Textbooks * The Sci.Math FAQ Team * Copyright Notice _________________________________________________________________ alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca Thu Dec 08 20:49:28 EST 1994