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Book Information:
Author:
Richard A. Mollin
Title:
Quadratics
Additional book information:
CRC Press,
Boca Raton, FL,
1996,
xx+387 pp.,
ISBN 0-8493-3983-9,
$74.95$
Henri Cohen, A course in computational algebraic number theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 138, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993. MR 1228206, DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-02945-9
David A. Cox, Primes of the form $x^2 + ny^2$, A Wiley-Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1989. Fermat, class field theory and complex multiplication. MR 1028322
H. W. Lenstra Jr., On the calculation of regulators and class numbers of quadratic fields, Number theory days, 1980 (Exeter, 1980) London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 56, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1982, pp. 123–150. MR 697260
Joseph Oesterlé, Nombres de classes des corps quadratiques imaginaires, Astérisque 121-122 (1985), 309–323 (French). Seminar Bourbaki, Vol. 1983/84. MR 768967
Jean-Pierre Serre, Lectures on the Mordell-Weil theorem, Aspects of Mathematics, E15, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1989. Translated from the French and edited by Martin Brown from notes by Michel Waldschmidt. MR 1002324, DOI 10.1007/978-3-663-14060-3
D. B. Zagier, Zetafunktionen und quadratische Körper, Hochschultext [University Textbooks], Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1981 (German). Eine Einführung in die höhere Zahlentheorie. [An introduction to higher number theory]. MR 631688
- 1.
- H. Cohen, A Course in Computational Algebraic Number Theory, Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics 138, 1993. MR 94i:11105
- 2.
- D. A. Cox, Primes of the form
, Wiley-Interscience, 1989. MR 90m:11016
- 3.
- H.W. Lenstra, On the calculation of regulators and class numbers of quadratic fields, Journées Arithmétiques 1980 (J. Armitage, ed.), London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 56, Cambridge University Press, 1982. MR 86g:11080
- 4.
- J. Oesterlé, Nombres de classes des corps quadratiques imaginaires, Sém. Bourbaki 1983-84, exposé 631, Astérisque 121-122 (1985). MR 86k:11064
- 5.
- J.-P. Serre, Lectures on the Mordell-Weil theorem, Vieweg, 1989. MR 90e:11086
- 6.
- D.B. Zagier, Zetafunktionen and quadratische Körper, Springer, 1981. MR 82m:10002
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Peter Stevenhagen
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Email:
psh@wins.uva.nl
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
35 (1998), 333-338
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00758-7
Review copyright:
© Copyright 1998
American Mathematical Society
