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Topics in the Theory of Algebraic Function Fields

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-0-8176-4515-1

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This text adopts the latter perspective by applying an arithmetic-algebraic viewpoint to the study of function fields as part of the algebraic theory of numbers, where a function field of one variable is the analogue of a finite extension of Q, the field of rational numbers.


Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, Complex analysis, Riemann surfaces, Riemann-Roch theorem, cryptography, number theory