Basic number theory / Andre Weil.
By: Weil, André
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BookSeries: Classics in mathematics.Publisher: Berlin : Springer, c1995Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xviii, 312 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 3540586555 (m) (Berlin); 0387061770 (v) (New York).Subject(s): Number theory | Class field theoryDDC classification: 512.7 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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)tPI(}}jlOV, e~oxov (10CPUljlr1.'CWV Aiux., llpop. . .dsup.. The first part of this volume is based on a course taught at Princeton University in 1961-62; at that time, an excellent set of notes was prepared by David Cantor, and it was originally my intention to make these notes available to the mathematical public with only quite minor changes. Then, among some old papers of mine, I accidentally came across a long-forgotten manuscript by Chevalley, of pre-war vintage (forgotten, that is to say, both by me and by its author) which, to my taste at least, seemed to have aged very well. It contained a brief but essentially com plete account of the main features of classfield theory, both local and global; and it soon became obvious that the usefulness of the intended volume would be greatly enhanced if I included such a treatment of this topic. It had to be expanded, in accordance with my own plans, but its outline could be preserved without much change. In fact, I have adhered to it rather closely at some critical points.
"Reprint of the 1973 edition.".
Includes index.
Originally published: 2nd ed. Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1973. (Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften in Einzeldarstellungen mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Anwendungsgebiete ; Bd. 144).
Part I: Elementary theory -- Part II: Classified theory.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Affine Varieties
- Projective Varieties
- Structure of Correspondences
- Chow's Theorem
- Degree of a Projective Variety
- Linear Systems
- Curves and Their Genus
- The Birational Geometry of Surfaces
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Biography of André Weil
André Weil was born on May 6, 1906 in Paris. After studying mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure and receiving a doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1928, he held professorial positions in India, France, the United States and Brazil before being appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 1958, where he remained until he died on August 6, 1998.
André Weil's work laid the foundation for abstract algebraic geometry and the modern theory of abelian varieties. A great deal of his work was directed towards establishing the links between number theory and algebraic geometry and devising modern methods in analytic number theory. Weil was one of the founders, around 1934, of the group that published, under the collective name of N. Bourbaki, the highly influential multi-volume treatise Eléments de mathématique.