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Author: 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.

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T. Y. Lam, The algebraic theory of quadratic forms, Mathematics Lecture Note Series, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Reading, Mass., 1973. MR 0396410

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[H] F. Hirzebruch, W. D. Neumann and S. S. Koh, Differentiable Manifolds and Quadratic Forms, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1971. MR 0341499




[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.