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2019 / 2020Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Algebraic Number Theory I

GRS MA 743

Credits:
4
Offered:
Either sem.
Graduate Prerequisites:
GRS MA 741; or consent of instructor.

Algebraic integers, completions, ramification and the discriminant, cyclotomic and quadratic fields, ideal class groups, Dirichlet's unit theorem, ideles, and adeles. Further topics are chosen from analytic number theory, class field theory, and the theory of Diophantine equations.

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