Cyclotomic fields ii, serge lang logarithm field mathematics. The decomposition law for cyclotomic fields, that is, the law according to which the prime divisors in factorize into prime divisors in, is a particular case of the general decomposition law in abelian extensions, established in class field. Therefore, the lemma and its proof should be stated for the localization of z. He proved that fermats last theorem holds for regular primes. Kummers work on cyclotomic fields paved the way for the development of algebraic number theory in general by dedekind, weber, hensel, hilbert, takagi, artin and others. Kummers work on cyclotomic fields paved the way for the development of algebraic number theory in general by dedekind. This can be thought of either as arithmetic in the quotient ring z i or in z. Washingtonintroduction to cyclotomic fields% springerverlag new york heidelberg berlin lawrence c.
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