P-Adic Analysis: A Short Course on Recent Work

by Neal Koblitz

This introduction to recent work in p-adic analysis and number theory will make accessible to a relatively general audience the efforts of a number of mathematicians over the last five years. After reviewing the basics (the construction of p-adic numbers and the p-adic analog of the complex number field, power series and Newton polygons), the author develops the properties of p-adic Dirichlet L-series using p-adic measures and integration. p-adic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521280605
• ISBN13: 9780521280600
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"