This book is the first comprehensive treatise of the transcendence theory of Mahler functions and their values. Recently the theory has seen profound development and has found a diversity of applications. The book assumes a background in elementary field theory, p-adic field, al…
P-adic numbers: an introduction
by Gouvêa, Fernando Q., (Fernando Quadros)
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p-adic numbers: an introduction
by Gouvêa, Fernando Q., (Fernando Quadros)
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There are numbers of all kinds: rational, real, complex, p-adic, and more. The p-adic numbers are not as well known as the others, but they play a fundamental role in number theory and in other parts of mathematics, capturing information related to a chosen prime number p. They …