Author: Mary Hester CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geometry, Analytic
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Equivalence and Classification of Quadratic and Hermitian Forms
Author: Mary Hester CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geometry, Analytic
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Quadratic and Hermitian Forms
Author: W. ScharlauPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642699715
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
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 century was concerned with problems about quadratic forms. On the basis of their work, Minkowski, Siegel, Hasse, Eichler and many others crea ted the impressive "arithmetic" theory of quadratic forms, which has been the object of the well-known books by Bachmann (1898/1923), Eichler (1952), and O'Meara (1963). Parallel to this development the ideas of abstract algebra and abstract linear algebra introduced by Dedekind, Frobenius, E. Noether and Artin led to today's structural mathematics with its emphasis on classification problems and general structure theorems. On the basis of both - the number theory of quadratic forms and the ideas of modern algebra - Witt opened, in 1937, a new chapter in the theory of quadratic forms. His most fruitful idea was to consider not single "individual" quadratic forms but rather the entity of all forms over a fixed ground field and to construct from this an algebra ic object. This object - the Witt ring - then became the principal object of the entire theory. Thirty years later Pfister demonstrated the significance of this approach by his celebrated structure theorems.
Quadratic and Hermitian Forms
Author: McMaster UniversityPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821860083
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Contains the proceedings of the 1983 Seminar on Quadratic and Hermitian Forms held at McMaster University, July 1983. Between 1945 and 1965, most of the work in quadratic (and hermitian) forms took place in arithmetic theory (M Eichler, M Kneser, O T O'Meara).
Equivalence and Reduction of Pairs of Hermitian Forms
Author: Mayme Irwin LogsdonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Mathematics).
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Quadratic and Hermitian Forms over Rings
Author: Max-Albert KnusPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642754015
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
From its birth (in Babylon?) till 1936 the theory of quadratic forms dealt almost exclusively with forms over the real field, the complex field or the ring of integers. Only as late as 1937 were the foundations of a theory over an arbitrary field laid. This was in a famous paper by Ernst Witt. Still too early, apparently, because it took another 25 years for the ideas of Witt to be pursued, notably by Albrecht Pfister, and expanded into a full branch of algebra. Around 1960 the development of algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory led to the study of quadratic forms over commutative rings and hermitian forms over rings with involutions. Not surprisingly, in this more general setting, algebraic K-theory plays the role that linear algebra plays in the case of fields. This book exposes the theory of quadratic and hermitian forms over rings in a very general setting. It avoids, as far as possible, any restriction on the characteristic and takes full advantage of the functorial aspects of the theory. The advantage of doing so is not only aesthetical: on the one hand, some classical proofs gain in simplicity and transparency, the most notable examples being the results on low-dimensional spinor groups; on the other hand new results are obtained, which went unnoticed even for fields, as in the case of involutions on 16-dimensional central simple algebras. The first chapter gives an introduction to the basic definitions and properties of hermitian forms which are used throughout the book.
Quadratic Forms and Their Applications
Author: Eva Bayer-FluckigerPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821827790
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume outlines the proceedings of the conference on "Quadratic Forms and Their Applications" held at University College Dublin. It includes survey articles and research papers ranging from applications in topology and geometry to the algebraic theory of quadratic forms and its history. Various aspects of the use of quadratic forms in algebra, analysis, topology, geometry, and number theory are addressed. Special features include the first published proof of the Conway-Schneeberger Fifteen Theorem on integer-valued quadratic forms and the first English-language biography of Ernst Witt, founder of the theory of quadratic forms.
Equivalence of Quadratic Forms
Author: Carl Ludwig SiegelOn the Equivalence of Quadratic Forms
Author: Thomas Roscoe HortonPublisher:
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Category : Forms, Quadratic
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
MATRIX AND LINEAR ALGEBRA AIDED WITH MATLAB
Author: Kanti Bhushan DattaPublisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 8120352866
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
With the inclusion of applications of singular value decomposition (SVD) and principal component analysis (PCA) to image compression and data analysis, this edition provides a strong foundation of linear algebra needed for a higher study in signal processing. The use of MATLAB in the study of linear algebra for a variety of computational purposes and the programmes provided in this text are the most attractive features of this book which strikingly distinguishes it from the existing linear algebra books needed as pre-requisites for the study of engineering subjects. This book is highly suitable for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students of mathematics, statistics, and all engineering disciplines. The book will also be useful to Ph.D. students for relevant mathematical resources.NEW TO THIS EDITION The Third Edition of this book includes: • Simultaneous diagonalization of two diagonalizable matrices • Comprehensive exposition of SVD with applications in shear analysis in engineering • Polar Decomposition of a matrix • Numerical experimentation with a colour and a black-and-white image compression using MATLAB • PCA methods of data analysis and image compression with a list of MATLAB codes
Rational Quadratic Forms
Author: John William Scott CasselsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description