附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 -- Introduction""; ""2 -- The zeta function""; ""3 -- Galois descent""; ""4 -- Nonabelian cohomology""; ""5 -- Weil cohomology theories and l-adic cohomology""; ""6 -- Classification of forms""; ""7 -- Forms of the Fermat equation I""; ""8 -- Binary cubic equations""; ""9 -- Forms of the Fermat equation II""; ""10 -- Representations of semidirect products""; ""11 -- The l-adic cohomology of Fermat varieties""; ""12 -- The zeta function of forms of Fermat equations""; ""Appendix A ""; ""Appendix B""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""