title: Notes on Fermat's Last Theorem (Canadian Mathematical Society Series of Monographs and Advanced Texts)
author: Alf J. van der Poorten
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zlib_text: FOUNDATIONS OF SANTILLI’S
  ISONUMBER THEORY
  With Applications to New Cryp-
  tograms, Fermat’s Theorem and
  Goldbach’s Conjecture
  
  FOUNDATIONS OF SANTILLI’S
  ISONUMBER THEORY
  With Applications to New Cryp-
  tograms, Fermat’s Theorem and
  Goldbach’s Conjecture
  CHUN-XUAN JIANG
  P. O. Box 3924, Beijing 100854
  China
  tushu@public.bta.net.cn
  International Academic Press
  America-Europe-Asia
  
  C.-X. Jiang, Foundations of Santilli’s Isonumber Theory.
  With Applications to New Cryptograms, Fermat’s Theo-
  rem and Goldbach’s Conjecture, xlvi + 367 pages.
  International Academic Press, America-Europe-Asia, 2002.
  ISBN 1-58485-056-3
  c⃝ 2002 by International Academic Press. All rights reserved.
  Copies of this monograph are permitted without the written per-
  mission by the copyright owner only for personal scientiﬁc use and
  not for resale or for library use.
  
  v
  Foreword
  In my works (see the bibliography at the end of the Preface) I often expressed
  the view that the protracted lack of resolution of fundamental pro