num_pages: 490
description: 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 Zp-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.
language: English
title: Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields
publisher: Springer