P-adic Numbers, p-adic Analysis, and Zeta-Functions (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) (v. 58) (Hardcover)

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Neal Koblitz was a student of Nicholas M. Katz, under whom he received his Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton in 1974. He spent the year 1974-75 and the spring semester 1978 in Moscow, where he did research in p-adic analysis and also translated Yu. I. Manin's "Course in Mathematical Logic" (GTM 53). He taught at Harvard from 1975 to 1979, and since 1979 has been at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published papers in number theory, algebraic geometry, and p-adic analysis, and he is the author of "p-adic Analysis: A Short Course on Recent Work" (Cambridge University Press and GTM 97: "Introduction to Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms (Springer-Verlag).

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An introduction to recent work in the theory of numbers and its interrelation with algebraic geometry and analysis. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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• Hardcover: 172 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (April 11, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387960171
• ISBN-13: 978-0387960173
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.7 inches
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