Rational Quadratic Forms
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- Paperback
413 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2008
Summary
This exploration of quadratic forms over rational numbers and rational integers offers an excellent elementary introduction to many aspects of a classical subject, including recent developments. The author, a Professor Emeritus at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, offers a largely self-contained treatment that develops most of the prerequisites.Topics include the theory of quadratic forms over local fields, forms with integral coefficients, genera and spinor genera, reduction theory f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486466705 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486466701 |
| Author: | J.W.S. Cassels |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 413 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 137mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics |
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J.W.S. Cassels
Biography of J.W.S. Cassels
J. W. S. Cassels (known to his friends by the Gaelic form “Ian” of his first name) was born of mixed English-Scottish parentage on 11 July 1922 in the picturesque cathedral city of Durham. With a first degree from Edinburgh, he commenced research in Cambridge in 1946 under L. J. Mordell, who had just succeeded G. H. Hardy in the Sadleirian Chair of Pure Mathematics. He obtained his doctorate and was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1949. After a year in Manchester, he returned to Cambridge and in 1967 became Sadleirian Professor. He was Head of the Departme
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