Basic Number Theory

by André Weil

From the "L.R. Shafarevich showed me the first edition […] and said that this book will be from now on the book about class field theory. In fact it is by far the most complete treatment of the main theorems of algebraic number theory, including function fields over finite constant fields, that appeared in book form." Zentralblatt MATH

Genres: Mathematics

334 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[Khantian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Weil did a little trolling with the title.

[Yasiru]

Such great tricksters mathematicians are when it comes to titles.

[The Architect]

Adeles and Ideles: The Movie

[Lucas Chen]

i will probably never have enough interest or background in algebraic number theory to read this book but you should tell that to my brain off meds while i'm romanticizing reading both weil siblings in the excruciating chicago winter