автор: W. Scharlau

This book arose from a course of lectures given by the first author during the winter term 1977/1978 at the University of Munster (West Germany). The course was primarily addressed to future high sch …

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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 c …