A Conversational Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory
- 1st ed.
- Hyderabad American Mathematical Society 2019
- ix, 316p.
This book lays out basic results, including the three “fundamental theorems”: unique factorization of ideals, finiteness of the class number, and Dirichlet’s unit theorem. While these theorems are by now quite classical, both the text and the exercises allude frequently to more recent developments.