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  <titleInfo>
    <title>A conversational introduction to algebraic number theory</title>
    <subTitle> : arithmetic beyond Z</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Pollack, Paul</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart> Pollack, Paul</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Providence, Rhode Island</placeTerm>
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    <publisher> : AMS, American Mathematical Society</publisher>
    <dateIssued>©2017</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>ix, 316 pages  : illustrations  ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Getting our feet wetCast of charactersQuadratic number fields: First stepsParadise lost--and foundEuclidean quadratic fieldsIdeal theory for quadratic fieldsPrime ideals in quadratic number ringsUnits in quadratic number ringsA touch of classMeasuring the failure of unique factorizationEuler's prime-producing polynomial and the criterion of Frobenius-RabinowitschInterlude: Lattice pointsBack to basics: Starting over with arbitrary number fieldsIntegral bases: From theory to practice, and backIdeal theory in general number ringsFiniteness of the class group and the arithmetic of $\overline{\mathbb{Z}}$Prime decomposition in general number ringsDirichlet's units theorem, IA case study: Units in $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt[3]{2}]$ and the Diophantine equation $X^3-2Y^3=\pm1$Dirichlet's units theorem, IIMore Minkowski magic, with a cameo appearance by HermiteDedekind's discriminant theoremThe quadratic Gauss sumIdeal density in quadratic number fieldsDirichlet's class number formulaThree miraculous appearances of quadratic class numbersIndex.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">/ Paul Pollack</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Algebra</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Algebraic number theory</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Number theory -- Algebraic number theory: global fields -- Algebraic number theory: global fields</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">512.74 POL</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">978147044890</identifier>
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