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Number Fields

Table of Contents

 A special case of Fermat's conjecture.- Number fields and number rings.- Prime decomposition in number rings.- Galois theory applied to prime decomposition.- The ideal class group and the unit group.- The distribution of ideals in a number ring.- The Dedekind zeta function and the class number formula.- The distribution of primes and an introduction to class field theory.

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