MA 727 Theory of Algebraic Numbers

Algebraic number fields; rings of algebraic integers and integral basis of field discriminant; unique factorication for ideals; splitting and ramifications of primes; Kummer’s theorem with applications to quadratic and roots of unity fields; padic numbers; Hensel’s lemMA ; geometry of numbers; units in an algebraic extension; finiteness of class numbers of a field; and computation of class numbers in special cases.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

MA 606

Distribution

Pure and Applied Mathematics Program