Rational Quadratic Forms
by Cassels, J. W. S
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0121632601
- ISBN 13
- 9780121632601
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London/New York/San Francisco: Academic Press, 1978. Study of "some of the major themes of the classical arithmetical theory of quadratic forms in the light of our present knowledge", including quadratic forms over a field, p-Adic numbers, quadratic forms over local fields, tools from the geometry of numbers, quadratic forms over the rationals, quadratic forms over integral domains, integral p-Adic forms, integral forms over the rational integers, spin and orthogonal groups, spinor genera, reduction of positive definite quadratic forms, automorphs of integral forms, composition of binary quadratic forms, definite forms, analytic methods; London Mathematical Society Monograph 13. Hardcover, full navy cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, corners rubbed, spine lightly spotted; no jacket; ink name & campus address inside front cover; nine pages in the first 17 pages neatly (not to say obsessively) underlined in several colors. Text otherwise clean; xvi, 413 pages; indexes, references, many equations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
Synopsis
Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1981.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s0307
- Title
- Rational Quadratic Forms
- Author
- Cassels, J. W. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0121632601
- ISBN 13
- 9780121632601
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Place of Publication
- London/New York/San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Mathematics
- Size
- Octavo
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