A Course in Arithmetic: 7 - Rilegato

Serre, J-P.

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ISBN 10: 0387900403 ISBN 13: 9780387900407

Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 1996

Riassunto

Serre's A Course in Arithmetic is a concentrated, modern introduction to basically three areas of number theory, quadratic forms, Dirichlet's density theorem, and modular forms. The first edition was very well accepted and is now one of the leading introductory texts on the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.From the reviews: "...The book is carefully written - in particular very much self-contained. As was the intention of the author, it is easily accessible to graduate or even undergraduate students, yet even the advanced mathematician will enjoy reading it. The last chapter, more difficult for the beginner, is an introduction to contemporary problems." American Scientist

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Recensione

“The book is a showcase of how some results in classical number theory (the Arithmetic of the title) can be derived quickly using abstract algebra. ... There are a reasonable number of worked examples, and they are very well-chosen. ... this book will expand your horizons, but you should already have a good knowledge of algebra and of classical number theory before you begin.” (Allen Stenger, MAA Reviews, maa.org, July, 2016)

Contenuti

I—Algebraic Methods.- I—Finite fields.- 1—Generalities.- 2—Equations over a finite field.- 3—Quadratic reciprocity law.- Appendix—Another proof of the quadratic reciprocity law.- II — p-adic fields.- 1—The ring Zp and the field Qp.- 2—p-adic equations.- 3—The multiplicative group of Qp.- III—Hilbert symbol.- 1—Local properties.- 2—Global properties.- IV—Quadratic forms over Qp and over Q.- 1—Quadratic forms.- 2—Quadratic forms over Qp.- 3—Quadratic forms over Q.- Appendix—Sums of three squares.- V—Integral quadratic forms with discriminant ± 1.- 1—Preliminaries.- 2—Statement of results.- 3—Proofs.- II—Analytic Methods.- VI—The theorem on arithmetic progressions.- 1—Characters of finite abelian groups.- 2—Dirichlet series.- 3—Zeta function and L functions.- 4—Density and Dirichlet theorem.- VII—Modular forms.- 1—The modular group.- 2—Modular functions.- 3—The space of modular forms.- 4—Expansions at infinity.- 5—Hecke operators.- 6—Theta functions.- Index of Definitions.- Index of Notations.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387900403
• ISBN 13: 9780387900407
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 132
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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