| Complex Multiplication Contributor(s): Schertz, Reinhard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521766680 ISBN-13: 9780521766685 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Number Theory - Mathematics | Geometry - Algebraic |
| Dewey: 516.352 |
| LCCN: 2009051874 |
| Series: New Mathematical Monographs |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a self-contained 2010 account of the state of the art in classical complex multiplication that includes recent results on rings of integers and applications to cryptography using elliptic curves. The author is exhaustive in his treatment, giving a thorough development of the theory of elliptic functions, modular functions and quadratic number fields and providing a concise summary of the results from class field theory. The main results are accompanied by numerical examples, equipping any reader with all the tools and formulas they need. Topics covered include: the construction of class fields over quadratic imaginary number fields by singular values of the modular invariant j and Weber's tau-function; explicit construction of rings of integers in ray class fields and Galois module structure; the construction of cryptographically relevant elliptic curves over finite fields; proof of Berwick's congruences using division values of the Weierstrass p-function; relations between elliptic units and class numbers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schertz, Reinhard: - Reinhard Schertz was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Augsburg in Germany until his retirement in 2008. |