Quadratic and Hermitian Forms

by Winfried Scharlau

Book Overview

For a long time - at least from Fermat to Minkowski - the theory of quadratic forms was a part of number theory. Much of the best work of the great number theorists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century was concerned with problems about quadratic forms. On the basis of their work, Minkowski, Siegel, Hasse, Eichler and many others crea- ted the impressive "arithmetic" theory of quadratic forms, which has been the object of the well-known books by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642699731
• ISBN13: 9783642699733
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"