Reciprocity Laws: From Euler to Eisenstein (Springer Monographs in Mathematics)
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 02, 2010
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9783642086281
Description: This book is about the development of reciprocity laws, starting from conjectures of Euler and discussing the contributions of Legendre, Gauss, Dirichlet, Jacobi, and Eisenstein. Readers knowledgeable in basic algebraic number theory and Galois theory will find detailed discussions of the reciprocity laws for quadratic, cubic, quartic, sextic and octic residues, rational reciprocity laws, and Eisensteins reciprocity law. An extensive bibliography will particularly appeal to readers interested in the history of reciprocity laws or in the current research in this area.