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9780521315258
Provides a self-contained introduction at the post-graduate level in number theory or algebra. After a general introduction the book focuses on p-adic numbers and their use in the theory of numbers. There are also chapters on algebraic number theory, on diophantine equations and on the analysis of a p-adic variable.Cassels, J. W. S. is the author of 'Local Fields' with ISBN 9780521315258 and ISBN 0521315255.
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