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This edition has been called ‘startlingly up-to-date’, and in this corrected second printing you can be sure that it’s even more contemporaneous. It surveys from a unified point of view both the modern state and the trends of continuing development in various branches of number theory. Illuminated by elementary problems, the central ideas of modern theories are laid bare. Some topics covered include non-Abelian generalizations of class field theory, recursive computability and Diophantine equations, zeta- and L-functions. This substantially revised and expanded new edition contains several new sections, such as Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, and relevant techniques coming from a synthesis of various theories.
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- Series: Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences (Book 49)
- Hardcover: 514 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (August 29, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3540203648
- ISBN-13: 978-3540203643
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Free Introduction to Modern Number Theory: Fundamental Problems, Ideas and Theories
In the branch of arithmetic geometry called Arakelov theory one begins with a projective curve X over the rational numbers Q which is described by equations with integer coefficients and from this one obtains an arithmetic surface X(Z). X is then viewed as a generic fiber of the projection of X(Z) to Spec Z (Z being the integers). If Spec Z is viewed as an arithmetic curve then the primes have a finite height. To deal with "arithmetic infinity" of Spec Z, Arakelov defined an analog of a p-adic completion of X(Z) by viewing Q as embedded in C (the complex numbers). The analog was obtained by putting a Hermitian structure on XC. This allowed Green's functions to be defined which play the role of intersection indices of arithmetic curves at the infinite fiber. Along these lines the authors point to a missing element in Arakelov geometry, namely an explicit description of the 'fiber at infinity'. Their remedy for this is very involved and is hard to follow without consulting the references, as is the case for most of the topics in this book, with the exception of the those in the first few chapters.
It is for this reason that this book should be viewed as more of an introduction to the literature on number theory, and not as a self-contained overview of some the more exciting topics in number theory and arithmetic geometry that have taken place in the last two decades. This is not to say that there are a few places in the book where the authors give the reader some deep insights into difficult concepts, and these discussions make the book worth reading. Some of these include the following:1. The contrast of Z/NZ with Z in terms of the number of invertible elements in each, which is used to motivate Euler's function. 2.