Quadratic and Hermitian Forms / by Winfried Scharlau.

For a long time - at least from Fermat to Minkowski - the theory of quadratic forms was a part of number theory. Much of the best work of the great number theorists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century was concerned with problems about quadratic forms. On the basis of their work, Minkowski, Sieg...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Scharlau, Winfried
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1985.
Series:	Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften ; 270.
Subjects:	Mathematics. Number theory.