You might also like

More about Local Fields

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 224 loyalty points

Book synopsis

The p-adic numbers, the earliest of local fields, were introduced by Hensel some 70 years ago as a natural tool in algebra number theory. Today the use of this and other local fields pervades much of mathematics, yet these simple and natural concepts, which often provide remarkably easy solutions to complex problems, are not as familiar as they should be. This book, based on postgraduate lectures at Cambridge, is meant to rectify this situation by providing a fairly elementary and self-contained introduction to local fields. After a general introduction, attention centres on the p-adic numbers and their use in number theory. There follow chapters on algebraic number theory, diophantine equations and on the analysis of a p-adic variable. This book will appeal to undergraduates, and even amateurs, interested in number theory, as well as to graduate students.

Book details

Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics Algebra

• Full title: Local Fields
• Author: J. W. S. Cassels
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780521315258
• ISBN: 0521315255
• ID: 02027468
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 229 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. August 1986

Trending among others

---

---

---