Numbers and number theory index

This section is part of the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It provides a collection of articles on the history of the study of numbers and number theory, covering number systems in various ancient civilisations, Fermat's last theorem, perfect numbers, prime numbers, the concept of zero, pi, the Golden ratio, the number e, Pell's equation and the concept of infinity. There are links to biographies of mathematicians who contributed to the theories, and also to references to further reading

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