Algorithmic algebraic number theory /

Now in paperback, this classic book is addressed to all lovers of number theory. On the one hand, it gives a comprehensive introduction to constructive algebraic number theory, and is therefore especially suited as a textbook for a course on that subject. On the other hand many parts go beyond an in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pohst, M.
Other Authors: Zassenhaus, Hans
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Series:Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: Preface
  • List of symbols
  • 1. Basics of constructive algebraic number theory
  • 2. The group of an equation
  • 3. Methods from the geometry of numbers
  • 4. Embedding of commutative orders into the maximal order
  • 5. Units in algebraic number fields
  • 6. The class group of algebraic number fields
  • Appendix
  • Algorithms
  • References
  • Index.