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Quadratics (Paperback)
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Quadratics (Paperback)
Series: Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
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The first thing you will find out about this book is that it is fun
to read. It is meant for the browser, as well as for the student
and for the specialist wanting to know about the area. The
footnotes give an historical background to the text, in addition to
providing deeper applications of the concept that is being cited.
This allows the browser to look more deeply into the history or to
pursue a given sideline. Those who are only marginally interested
in the area will be able to read the text, pick up information
easily, and be entertained at the same time by the historical and
philosophical digressions. It is rich in structure and motivation
in its concentration upon quadratic orders. This is not a book that
is primarily about tables, although there are 80 pages of
appendices that contain extensive tabular material (class numbers
of real and complex quadratic fields up to 104; class group
structures; fundamental units of real quadratic fields; and more!).
This book is primarily a reference book and graduate student text
with more than 200 exercises and a great deal of hints! The
motivation for the text is best given by a quote from the Preface
of Quadratics: "There can be no stronger motivation in mathematical
inquiry than the search for truth and beauty. It is this author's
long-standing conviction that number theory has the best of both of
these worlds. In particular, algebraic and computational number
theory have reached a stage where the current state of affairs
richly deserves a proper elucidation. It is this author's goal to
attempt to shine the best possible light on the subject."
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