Cyclotomic Fields I-II

by Serge Lang

Kummer's work on cyclotomic fields paved the way for the development of algebraic number theory in general by Dedekind, Weber, Hensel, Hilbert, Takagi, Artin and others. However, the success of this general theory has tended to obscure special facts proved by Kummer about cyclotomic fields which lie deeper than the general theory. For a long period in the 20th century this aspect of Kummer's work seems to have been largely forgotten, except for a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387966714
• ISBN13: 9780387966717
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"