Local Fields

by J.W.S. Cassels and John William Scott Cassels

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521315255
• ISBN13: 9780521315258
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"