Introduction to Quadratic Forms Over Fields

ISBN-13: 9780821810958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004

Lam (University Of California)

Opis

Starting with few prerequisites beyond linear algebra, the author charts an expert course from Witt's classical theory of quadratic forms, quaternion and Clifford algebras, Artin-Schreier theory of formally real fields, and structural theorems on Witt ring