The Theory of Algebraic Number Fields / Edition 1

by David Hilbert, F. Lemmermeyer, I.T. Adamson, N. Schappacher, R. Schoof

Overview

A translation of Hilberts "Theorie der algebraischen Zahlkörper" best known as the "Zahlbericht", first published in 1897, in which he provides an elegantly integrated overview of the development of algebraic number theory up to the end of the nineteenth century. The Zahlbericht also provided a firm foundation for further research in the theory, and can be seen as the starting point for all twentieth century investigations into the subject, as well as reciprocity laws and class field theory. This English edition further contains an introduction by F. Lemmermeyer and N. Schappacher.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642083068
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/08/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Pages:	351
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1. Algebraic Numbers and Number Fields.- 2. Ideals of Number Fields.- 3. Congruences with Respect to Ideals.- 4. The Discriminant of a Field and its Divisors.- 5. Extension Fields.- 6. Units of a Field.- 7. Ideal Classes of a Field.- 8. Reducible Forms of a Field.- 9. Orders in a Field.- 10. Prime Ideals of a Galois Number Field and its Subfields.- 11. The Differents and Discriminants of a Galois Number Field and its Subfields.- 12. Connexion Between the Arithmetic and Algebraic Properties of a Galois Number Field.- 13. Composition of Number Fields.- 14. The Prime Ideals of Degree 1 and the Class Concept.- 15. Cyclic Extension Fields of Prime Degree.- 16. Factorisation of Numbers in Quadratic Fields.- 17. Genera in Quadratic Fields and Their Character Sets.- 18. Existence of Genera in Quadratic Fields.- 19. Determination of the Number of Ideal Classes of a Quadratic Field.- 20. Orders and Modules of Quadratic Fields.- 21. The Roots of Unity with Prime Number Exponent l and the Cyclotomic Field They Generate.- 22. The Roots of Unity for a Composite Exponent m and the Cyclotomic Field They Generate.- 23. Cyclotomic Fields as Abelian Fields.- 24. The Root Numbers of the Cyclotomic Field of the l-th Roots of Unity.- 25. The Reciprocity Law for l-th Power Residues Between a Rational Number and a Number in the Field of l-th Roots of Unity.- 26. Determination of the Number of Ideal Classes in the Cyclotomic Field of the m-th Roots of Unity.- 27. Applications of the Theory of Cyclotomic Fields to Quadratic Fields.- 28. Factorisation of the Numbers of the Cyclotomic Field in a Kummer Field.- 29. Norm Residues and Non-residues of a Kummer Field.- 30. Existence of Infinitely Many Prime Ideals with Prescribed Power Characters in a Kummer Field.- 31. Regular Cyclotomic Fields.- 32. Ambig Ideal Classes and Genera in Regular Kummer Fields.- 33. The l-th Power Reciprocity Law in Regular Cyclotomic Fields.- 34. The Number of Genera in a Regular Kummer Field.- 35. New Foundation of the Theory of Regular Kummer Fields.- 36. The Diophantine Equation—m +—m +—m = 0.- References.- List of Theorems and Lemmas.