Listed in: Mathematics and Statistics, as MATH-359
Harris B. Daniels (Section 01)
The p-adic numbers were first introduced by Kurt Hensel near the end of the nineteenth century. Since their introduction they have become a central object in modern number theory, algebraic geometry, and algebraic topology. These numbers give a new set of fields (one for each prime p) that contain the rational numbers and behave in some ways like the real numbers, but they also possess some unique and unexpected properties. The main objective of this course will be to rigorously construct the p-adic numbers and explore some of the algebraic, analytic, and topological properties that make them interesting. Four class meetings per week.
Requisite: MATH 350 and MATH 355, or consent of the instructor. Limited to 32 students. Spring semester. Professor Daniels.
Section 01
M 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM SMUD 204
W 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM SMUD 204
F 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM SMUD 204
Section 01
Tu 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM SMUD 207