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Ribenboim1979

P. Ribenboim, 13 lectures on Fermat's last theorem, Springer-Verlag, 1979.  New York, NY, pp. xvi+302 pp. (1 plate), ISBN 0-387-90432-8. MR 81f:10023

Ribenboim83

P. Ribenboim, "1093," Math. Intelligencer, 5:2 (1983) 28--34.  MR 85e:11001

Ribenboim88

P. Ribenboim, The book of prime number records, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 1988.  New York, NY, pp. xxiv+479, ISBN 0-387-97042-8. MR1016815 [Replaced by the text [Ribenboim95].]

Ribenboim91

P. Ribenboim, The little book of big primes, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1991.  ISBN 0-387-97508-X. MR 92i:11008 (Annotation available)

Ribenboim1994

P. Ribenboim, Catalan's conjecture: are 8 and 9 the only consecutive powers?, Academic Press, Boston, MA, 1994.  pp. xvi+364, ISBN 0-12-587170-8. MR 95a:11029

Ribenboim95

P. Ribenboim, The new book of prime number records, 3rd edition, Springer-Verlag, 1995.  New York, NY, pp. xxiv+541, ISBN 0-387-94457-5. MR 96k:11112 [An excellent resource for those with some college mathematics. Basically a Guinness Book of World Records for primes with much of the relevant mathematics. The extensive bibliography is seventy-five pages.]

Ribenboim95b

P. Ribenboim, "Selling primes," Math. Mag., 68:3 (1995) 175-182.  MR 96e:11164 [Elementary introduction to finding primes; presents an algorithm to find 100 digit primes.]

Ribenboim1999

P. Ribenboim, Fermat's last theorem for amateurs, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1999.  pp. xiv+407, ISBN 0-387-98508-5. MR 2001h:11036

Ribenboim2001

P. Ribenboim, Números primos: mistérios e recordes, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, 2001.  Rio de Janeiro, [A version of the text [Ribenboim95].]

Ribenboim2004

Ribenboim, P., The little book of bigger primes, Second edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004.  pp. xxiv+356, ISBN 0-387-20169-6. MR2028675 [The second edititon is about 50% bigger than the first.]