These are some of the main topics that are discussed in this book:
- Rings of integers of number fields
- Unique factorization of ideals in Dedekind domains
- Structure of the group of units of the ring of integers
- Finiteness of the group of equivalence classes
of ideals of the ring of integers (the ``class group'')
- Decomposition and inertia groups, Frobenius elements
- Ramification
- Discriminant and different
- Quadratic and biquadratic fields
- Cyclotomic fields (and applications)
- How to use a computer to compute with many of the above
objects (both algorithms and actual use of software).
- Valuations on fields
- Completions (-adic fields)
- Adeles and Ideles
Note that we will not do anything nontrivial with zeta functions or
-functions.
William Stein
2012-09-24