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Introduction to number theory lecture 20. p-adic numbers.

Richard E Borcherds 10,536 lượt xem 3 years ago
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This lecture is part of my Berkeley math 115 course "Introduction to number theory"
For the other lectures in the course see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8yHsr3EFj53L8sMbzIhhXSAOpuZ1Fov8

We descibe the general case of Hensel's lemma (or Newton's method) for solving equations, and briefly descibe p-adic numbers.

The textbook is "An introduction to the theory of numbers" by Niven, Zuckerman, and Montgomery (5th edition).

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