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Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition CHAPTER Ⅰ Fermat's Last Theorem CHAPTER 2 Basic Results CHAPTER 3 Dirichlet Characters CHAPTER 4 Dirichlet L-series and Class Number Formulas CHAPTER 5 p-adic L-functions and Bernoulli Numbers 5.1. p-adic functions 5.2. p-adic L-functions 5.3. Congruences 5.4. The value at s -- 1 5.5. The p-adic regulator 5.6. Applications of the class number formula CHAPTER 6 Stickelberger's Theorem 6.1. Gauss sums 6.2. Stickelberger's theorem 6.3. Herbrand's theorem 6.4. The index of the Stickelberger ideal 6.5. Fermat's Last Theorem CHAPTER ? lwasawa's Construction of p-adic L-functions 7.1. Group tings and power series 7.2. p-adic L-functions 7.3. Appfications 7.4. Function fields 7.5. CHAPTER 8 Cyclotomic Units 8.1. Cyclotomic units 8.2. Proof of the p-adic class number formula 8.3. Units of O(~,) and Vandiver's conjecture 8.4. p-adic expansions CHAPTER 9 The Second Case of Fermat's Last Theorem 9.1. The basic argument 9.2. The theorems CHAPTER 10 Galois Groups Acting on Ideal Class Groups 10.1. Some theorems on class groups 10.2. Reflection theorems 10.3. Consequences of Vandiver's conjecture CHAPTER I ! Cyclotomic Fields of Class Number One 11.1. The estimate for even characters 11.2. The estimate for all characters …… CHAPTER 14 CHAPTER 15 The Main Conjecture and Annihilation of Class Groups CHAPTER 16 Miscellany Appendix 1. Inverse limits 2. Infinite Galois theory and ramification theory 3. Class field theory Tables 1. Bernoulli numbers 2. Irregular primes 3. Relative class numbers 4. Real class numbers Bibliography List of Symbols Index