P-Adic Analysis Compared with Real

ISBN
9780821842201
$34.00
Author Katok, Svetlana
Format Paperback
Details
  • Active Record
  • Individual Title
  • Books
  • 2007
  • 152
  • Yes
  • 37
  • Print
  • QA241.K367 2007
The book gives an introduction to $p$-adic numbers from the point of view of number theory, topology, and analysis. Compared to other books on the subject, its novelty is both a particularly balanced approach to these three points of view and an emphasis on topics accessible to undergraduates. In addition, several topics from real analysis and elementary topology which are not usually covered in undergraduate courses (totally disconnected spaces and Cantor sets, points of discontinuity of maps and the Baire Category Theorem, surjectivity of isometries of compact metric spaces) are also included in the book. They will enhance the reader's understanding of real analysis and intertwine the real and $p$-adic contexts of the book. The book is based on an