Cohomology of Number Fields (Grundlehren Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften)
Contributors: Jurgen Neukirch (Editor); Alexander Schmidt (Editor); Kay Wingberg (Editor)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: February 3, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9783540378884
Subjects: Algebraic geometry; Algebraic number theory; Groups & group theory; Number theory; General; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: Profinite groups are topological groups which naturally occur in algebraic number theory as Galois groups of infinite field extensions or more generally as étale fundamental groups of schemes.