Introduction to Classical Mathematics I From the Quadratic Reciprocity Law to the Uniformization Theorem

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koch, Helmut
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Mathematics and Its Applications
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Congruences
  • 2. Quadratic forms
  • 3. Division of the circle (cyclotomy)
  • 4. Theory of surfaces
  • 5. Harmonic analysis
  • 6. Prime numbers in arithmetic progressions
  • 7. Theory of algebraic equations
  • 8. The beginnings of complex function theory
  • 9. Entire functions
  • 10. Riemann surfaces
  • 11. Meromorphic differentials on closed Riemann surfaces
  • 12. The theorems of Abel and Jacobi
  • 13. Elliptic functions
  • 14. Riemannian geometry
  • 15. On the number of primes less than a given magnitude
  • 16. The origins of algebraic number theory
  • 17. Field theory
  • 18. Dedekind’s theory of ideals
  • 19. The ideal class group and the group of units
  • 20. The Dedekind ?-function
  • 21. Quadratic forms and quadratic fields
  • 22. The different and the discriminant
  • 23. Theory of algebraic functions of one variable
  • 24. The geometry of numbers
  • 25. Normal extensions of algebraic number- and function fields
  • 26. Entire functions with growth of finite order
  • 27. Proof of the prime number theorem
  • 28. Combinatorial topology
  • 29. The idea of a Riemann surface
  • 30. Uniformisation
  • Appendix 1. Rings
  • A1.1 Basic ring concepts
  • A1.2 Euclidean rings
  • A1.3 The characteristic of a ring
  • A1.4 Modules over euclidean rings
  • Al.5 Construction of fields
  • A1.6 Polynomials over fields
  • Appendix 2. Set theoretic topology
  • A2.1 Definition of a topological space
  • A2.2 Compact spaces
  • Appendix 3. Green’s theorem
  • Appendix 4. Euclidean vector and point spaces
  • Appendix 5. Projective spaces
  • Name index
  • General index