Author	Lemmermeyer, Franz. author
Title	Reciprocity Laws [electronic resource] : From Euler to Eisenstein / by Franz Lemmermeyer
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12893-0
Descript	XX, 492 p. online resource

This book is about the development of reciprocity laws, starting from conjectures of Euler and discussing the contributions of Legendre, Gauss, Dirichlet, Jacobi, and Eisenstein. Readers knowledgeable in basic algebraic number theory and Galois theory will find detailed discussions of the reciprocity laws for quadratic, cubic, quartic, sextic and octic residues, rational reciprocity laws, and Eisensteins reciprocity law. An extensive bibliography will particularly appeal to readers interested in the history of reciprocity laws or in the current research in this area

1. The Genesis of Quadratic Reciprocity -- 2. Quadratic Number Fields -- 3. Cyclotomic Number Fields -- 4. Power Residues and Gauss Sums -- 5. Rational Reciprocity Laws -- 6. Quartic Reciprocity -- 7. Cubic Reciprocity -- 8. Eisensteinโs Analytic Proofs -- 9. Octic Reciprocity -- 10. Gaussโs Last Entry -- 11. Eisenstein Reciprocity -- A. Dramatis Personae -- B. Chronology of Proofs -- C. Some Open Problems -- References -- Author Index

1. Mathematics
2. Algebra
3. Number theory
4. Mathematics
5. Algebra
6. Number Theory