This book provides an introduction to quadratic forms, building from basics to the most recent results. Professor Kitaoka is well known for his work in this area, and in this book he covers many aspects of the subject, including lattice theory, Siegel's formula, and some results involving tensor pro
Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms
โ Scribed by Yoshiyuki Kitaoka
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 280
- Series
- Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This book provides an introduction to quadratic forms, building from basics to the most recent results. Professor Kitaoka is well known for his work in this area, and in this book he covers many aspects of the subject, including lattice theory, Siegel's formula, and some results involving tensor products of positive definite quadratic forms. The reader should have a knowledge of algebraic number fields, making this book ideal for graduate students and researchers wishing for an insight into quadratic forms.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
<p>This book is divided into two parts. The first part is preliminary and consists of algebraic number theory and the theory of semisimple algebras. There are two principal topics: classification of quadratic forms and quadratic Diophantine equations. The second topic is a new framework which contai
This volume presents a collection of articles that are based on talks delivered at the International Conference on the Algebraic and Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms held in Frutillar, Chile in December 2007. The theory of quadratic forms is closely connected with a broad spectrum of areas in al