p-adic Numbers
Subtitle: An Introduction (Universitext)
Edition: 2nd ed. 1997. Corr. 3rd printing edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 5, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9783540629115
Subjects: Algebra; Algebraic number theory; Theory Of Numbers; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Number Theory; Mathematics / Number Theory; absolute values on fields; p-adic analysis; valuations; p-adic numbers
First sentence: The p-adic numbers were first introduced by the German mathematician K. Hensel (though they are foreshadowed in the work of his predecessor E. Kummer).