Number Theory
Number Theory
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-66671-1
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发表时间:
1979-12
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通讯作者:
Helmut Hasse
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作者:
Helmut Hasse
In spite of the fact that nowadays there are quite a few books on algebraic number theory available to the mathematical community, there seems to be still a strong need for a fundamental work like Hasse's „Zahlentheorie". This impression is corroborated by the great number of inquiries the editor received about the date of appearance of the English translation of Hasse's book. One main reason for the unbroken interest in this book lies probably in its vivid presentation of the divisortheoretic approach to algebraic number theory, an approach which was developed by Hasse's former teacher Hensel and further expanded by Hasse himself. Hasse does not content himself with a mere presentation of the number-theoretic mate-rial, but he motivates the basic ideas and questions, comments on them in detail, and points out their connections with neighboring branches of mathematics. In preparing the English edition of Hasse's" Number Theory", I tried to preserve as much as possible the unique style and features of the book, even at the risk of using a partly insufficient or somewhat clumsy English. In particular, I kept the original notation of the book thus following the requirements stipulated by Hasse. This means, eg, that denotes the ring of rational integers, P the field of rational numbers, P∞ the field of real numbers, P, the p-adic completion of P, and Zo the field of complex numbers. 8 The present English translation of the book was prepared on the basis of the third edition of the German, Zahlentheorie". Only one major change from the German edition was made: Chapter 16 had to be largely rewritten in order to remove an error detected and corrected by JB Leicht and P. Roquette. This rewriting has been done by JB Leicht to whom I owe thanks for this contribu-tion to the book. Besides that change, only some minor errors have been eliminated, some new bibliographical references have been added, and a few updatings in the tables and computations at the end of the book have been incorporated. Thanks are due to F. Halter-Koch and HW Lenstra jr. for pointing out to me some errors in the German edition, and to A. Odlyzko for his advice regarding estimates of discriminants. I am deeply indebted to B. Gordon who took the trouble of carefully reading the English manuscript and suggesting lots of improvements of a stylistic and mathematical nature. Last but not least I also wish to thank my esteemed former teacher Professor Hasse for his patience with my slow progress in editing and preparing this book.