A classical invitation to algebraic numbers and class fields. With two appendices by Olga Taussky: `Artin's 1932 Göttingen lectures on class field theory' and `Connections between algebraic number theory and integral matrices'.

zbMath0688.12001MaRDI QIDQ1801321

Harvey Cohn

Publication date: 5 June 1993

Published in: Universitext (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

textbookclass field theoryalgebraic number theoryintegral matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Class field theory (11R37) Integral representations related to algebraic numbers; Galois module structure of rings of integers (11R33) Matrices of integers (15B36) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to field theory (12-01) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to field theory (12-02)

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