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| author            = [[André Weil]]
| pub_date          = 1984
| genre             = Mathematics
| subject           = [[number theory]]
| image             = File:Number_Theory_An_Approach_Through_History_from_Hammurapi_to_Legendre.png
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'''''Number Theory: An Approach Through History from Hammurapi to Legendre''''' is a book on the history of [[number theory]], written by [[André Weil]] and published in 1984.<ref>''Number Theory: An Introduction via the Distribution of Primes'' by Benjamin Fine, Gerhard Rosenberger 2006 {{isbn|978-0-8176-4472-7}} page 2</ref>
The book reviews over three millennia of research on numbers but the key focus is on mathematicians from the 17th century to the 19th, in particular, on the works of the mathematicians [[Pierre de Fermat|Fermat]], [[Leonhard Euler|Euler]], [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange|Lagrange]], and [[Adrien-Marie Legendre|Legendre]] paved the way for modern number theory.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Ribenboim, Paulo|authorlink=Paulo Ribenboim|title=Review of ''Number Theory, An Approach Through History from Hammurapi to Legendre'' by André Weil|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=13|issue=2|year=1985|pages=173–182|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1985-13-02/S0273-0979-1985-15411-4/S0273-0979-1985-15411-4.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-1985-15411-4|doi-access=free}}</ref> It does not discuss many of the developments in the field after the work of [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]] in ''[[Disquisitiones Arithmeticae]]''. However, it does indicate some of the developments in fields which directly arise from these works, in particular, the theory of [[elliptic curve]]s.
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==See also==
* [[List of important publications in mathematics]]
==References==
===Footnotes===
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===Bibliography===
* ''Number Theory, An Approach Through History from Hammurapi to Legendre'' by [[André Weil]], Birkhäuser (December 2006) {{isbn|978-0-8176-4565-6}}
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