An especially timely work, the book is an introduction to the theory of p-adic L-functions originated by Kubota and Leopoldt in 1964 as p-adic analogues of the classical L-functions of Dirichlet.
Professor Iwasawa reviews the classical results on Dirichlet's L-functions and sketches a proof for some of them. Next he defines generalized Bernoulli numbers and discusses some of their fundamental properties. Continuing, he defines p-adic L-functions, proves their existence and uniqueness, and treats p-adic logarithms and p-adic regulators. He proves a formula of Leopoldt for the...
An especially timely work, the book is an introduction to the theory of p-adic L-functions originated by Kubota and Leopoldt in 1964 as p-adic anal...
Iwasawa is one of the most original and influential mathematicians in the 20th century. This Collected Papers of K. Iwasawa contains all 66 published papers, including 11 papers in Japanese, for which English abstracts (by the editors) are attached. Also included is a masterly summery of Iwasawa theory by J. Coates (Cambridge).
Iwasawa is one of the most original and influential mathematicians in the 20th century. This Collected Papers of K. Iwasawa contains all 66 publish...
