p-adic Numbers, p-adic Analysis, and Zeta-Functions:
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Main Author: Koblitz, Neal (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1977
Series:Graduate Texts in Mathematics 58
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:These lecture notes are intended as an introduction to p-adic analysis on the elementary level. For this reason they presuppose as little background as possi­ ble. Besides about three semesters of calculus, I presume some slight exposure to more abstract mathematics, to the extent that the student won't have an adverse reaction to matrices with entries in a field other than the real numbers, field extensions of the rational numbers, or the notion of a continuous map of topolog­ ical spaces. The purpose of this book is twofold: to develop some basic ideas of p-adic analysis, and to present two striking applications which, it is hoped, can be as effective pedagogically as they were historically in stimulating interest in the field. The first of these applications is presented in Chapter II, since it only requires the most elementary properties of Q ; this is Mazur's construction by p means of p-adic integration of the Kubota-Leopoldtp-adic zeta-function, which "p-adically interpolates" the values of the Riemann zeta-function at the negative odd integers. My treatment is based on Mazur's Bourbaki notes (unpublished)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9781468400472
9781468400496
ISSN:0072-5285
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4684-0047-2

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