Review of
Two Hundred Conjectures and One Hundred and Fifty Open
Problems on Fermat Pseudoprimes, by Marius Coman, Education Publishing,
Columbus, Ohio, 2013. ISBN 9781599732572.
This book is
packed with a set of informed conjectures generally focused on the Carmichael
and Poulet numbers and the Fermat pseudoprimes. The author relies on the OEIS (On-line
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) database as the foundation for the initial
verification of the statements.
It opens with 200 conjectures on Fermat pseudoprimes
that also features Cipolla pseudoprimes and Harshad numbers. The next section
contains 30 short papers on Fermat pseudoprimes and then a section of 30
sequences of Fermat pseudoprimes that includes the Poulet and Carmichael
numbers. The last section has 150 open problems referencing the Fermat pseudo
primes.
All of the
material will be understandable to the person with a basic knowledge of congruencies
and number theory. With this book Coman makes a significant contribution to
mathematics. While solving problems is important, posing them is the necessary
precondition.
This book is available for free at http://fs.gallup.unm.edu/eBooks-otherformats.htm.
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