Valued Fields (Springer Monographs in Mathematics)

by Alexander Prestel (Author), Antonio J . Engler (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $175.40

  Absolute values and their completions - such as the p-adic number fields - play an important role in number theory. In valuation theory, the notion of completion must be replaced by that of Henselization . This book develops the theory of valuations as well as of Henselizations, based on the skills of a standard graduate course in algebra.