p-adic Analysis Compared with Real
Svetlana Katok
Price
1485
ISBN
9780821852248
Language
English
Pages
168
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2010
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
American Mathematical Society
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The book gives an introduction to p-adic numbers from the point of view of number theory, topology, and analysis. Compared to other books on the subject, its novelty is both a particularly balanced approach to these three points of view and an emphasis on topics accessible to undergraduates. In addition, several topics from real analysis and elementary topology which are not usually covered in undergraduate courses (totally disconnected spaces and Cantor sets, points of discontinuity of maps and the Baire Category Theorem, surjectivity of isometries of compact metric spaces) are also included in the book. They will enhance the reader''s understanding of real analysis and intertwine the real and p-adic contexts of the book. The choice of the topic was motivated by the internal beauty of the subject of p-adic analysis, an unusual one in the undergraduate curriculum, and abundant opportunities to compare it with its much more familiar real counterpart. The book includes a large number of exercises. Answers, hints, and solutions for most of them appear at the end of the book. The book can be successfully used in a topic course or for self-study.

Svetlana Katok, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
  1. Arithmetic of the p-adic Numbers
  2. The Topology of Qg vs. the Topology of R
  3. Elementary Analysis in Qp
  4. p-adic Functions
Answers, Hints, and Solutions for Selected Exercises
Bibliography
Index