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  3. From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
  4. Subject: sci.math FAQ: Table of Contents
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  25. Contents
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  27.      * Contents
  28.      * Introduction
  29.           + Why a list of Frequently Asked Questions?
  30.           + Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics?
  31.      * Fermat's Last Theorem
  32.           + History of Fermat's Last Theorem
  33.           + What is the current status of FLT?
  34.           + Wiles' line of attack
  35.           + If not, then what?
  36.                o What has been proved
  37.                o Conjectures
  38.           + Did Fermat prove this theorem?
  39.      * Prime Numbers
  40.           + Largest known Mersenne prime
  41.           + Largest known prime
  42.           + Largest known twin primes
  43.           + Largest Fermat number with known factorization
  44.           + Algorithms to factor integer numbers
  45.           + List of record numbers
  46.           + What is the current status on Mersenne primes?
  47.           + Formulae to compute prime numbers
  48.      * What are numbers?
  49.           + Introduction
  50.           + Construction of the Number System
  51.           + Construction of N
  52.           + Construction of Z
  53.           + Construction of Q
  54.           + Construction of R
  55.           + Construction of C
  56.           + Rounding things up
  57.           + What's next?
  58.      * Special Numbers and Functions
  59.           + How to compute digits of pi ?
  60.           + Indiana bill sets the value of pi to 3
  61.           + Euler's formula: e^(i pi) = -1
  62.           + What is 0^0
  63.           + Why is 0.9999... = 1 ?
  64.           + Name for f(x)^(f(x)) = x
  65.      * Names of Large Numbers
  66.      * Unsolved Problems
  67.           + Does there exist a number that is perfect and odd?
  68.           + Collatz Problem
  69.           + Goldbach's conjecture
  70.           + Twin primes conjecture
  71.      * Symbolic Computation Packages
  72.      * Fields Medal
  73.           + Historical Introduction
  74.           + Table of Awardees
  75.      * Famous Problems in Mathematics
  76.           + The Four Colour Theorem
  77.           + The Trisection of an Angle
  78.      * Mathematical Games
  79.           + The Monty Hall problem
  80.           + Master Mind
  81.      * Projective plane of order 10
  82.      * The Axiom of Choice
  83.           + Relevance of the Axiom of Choice
  84.           + Cutting a sphere into pieces of larger volume
  85.      * The Continuum Hypothesis
  86.      * Theory of quaternionic analytic functions
  87.      * Mathematical Oddities
  88.           + Erdos Number
  89.           + Why is there no Nobel in mathematics?
  90.           + Who is N. Bourbaki?
  91.      * Which are the 23 Hilbert Problems?
  92.      * Formulas of General Interest
  93.           + How to determine the day of the week, given the month, day
  94.             and year
  95.           + Formula for the Surface Area of a sphere in Euclidean N
  96.             -Space
  97.           + Formula to compute compound interest.
  98.      * General Bibliography and Textbooks
  99.      * The Sci.Math FAQ Team
  100.      * Copyright Notice
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