AuthorMilnor, John. author
TitleSymmetric Bilinear Forms [electronic resource] / by John Milnor, Dale Husemoller
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1973
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88330-9
Descript VIII, 150 p. 1 illus. online resource

CONTENT

I. Basic Concepts -- II. Symmetric Inner Product Spaces over Z -- III. Inner Product Spaces over a Field -- IV. Discrete Valuations and Dedekind Domains -- V. Some Examples -- Appendix 1. Quadratic Forms -- Appendix 2. Hermitian Forms -- Appendix 3. The Hasse-Minkowski Theorem -- Appendix 4. Gauss Sums, the Signature mod 8, and Quadratic Reciprocity -- Appendix 5. The Leech Lattice, and Other Lattices in Dimension 24 -- Chronological Table -- References -- Special Notations


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Matrix theory
  3. Algebra
  4. Mathematics
  5. Linear and Multilinear Algebras
  6. Matrix Theory