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Overview"The first thing you will find out about this book is that it is fun to read. It is meant for the browser, as well as for the student and for the specialist wanting to know about the area. The footnotes give an historical background to the text, in addition to providing deeper applications of the concept that is being cited. This allows the browser to look more deeply into the history or to pursue a given sideline. Those who are only marginally interested in the area will be able to read the text, pick up information easily, and be entertained at the same time by the historical and philosophical digressions. It is rich in structure and motivation in its concentration upon quadratic orders. This is not a book that is primarily about tables, although there are 80 pages of appendices that contain extensive tabular material (class numbers of real and complex quadratic fields up to 104; class group structures; fundamental units of real quadratic fields; and more!). This book is primarily a reference book and graduate student text with more than 200 exercises and a great deal of hints! The motivation for the text is best given by a quote from the Preface of Quadratics: ""There can be no stronger motivation in mathematical inquiry than the search for truth and beauty. It is this author's long-standing conviction that number theory has the best of both of these worlds. In particular, algebraic and computational number theory have reached a stage where the current state of affairs richly deserves a proper elucidation. It is this author's goal to attempt to shine the best possible light on the subject.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard A. MollinPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: CRC Press Inc Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.993kg ISBN: 9780849339837ISBN 10: 0849339839 Pages: 410 Publication Date: 24 October 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA great deal to be welcomed in this book...It collects much information in one of the major areas of modern computational number theory...Numerous exercises and problems make it a foundation for various postgraduate courses. - Roger Cook, London Mathematical Society Author InformationMollin, Richard A. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |