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Author(s): Winfried Scharlau
Title: Quadratic and Hermitian forms
Additional book information: Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 270, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York and Tokyo, 1985, x + 421 pp., $84.00. ISBN 3-540-13724-6

[H] F. Hirzebruch, W. D. Neumann and S. S. Koh, Differentiable Manifolds and Quadratic Forms, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1971. MR 341499

[L] T. Y. Lam, The Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Reading, Mass., 1973. (Revised Printing: 1980.) MR 396410

[P] A. Pfister, Quadratische Formen in beliebigen Körpern, Invent. Math. 1 (1966), 116-132. MR 200270

[W] E. Witt, Theorie der quadratischen Formen in beliebigen Körpern, J. Reine Angew. Math. 176 (1937), 31-44.

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1989), 121-125.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15785-6
PII: S 0273-0979(1989)15785-6

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