Quadratic and Hermitian Forms over Rings by Max-Albert Knus.

From its birth (in Babylon?) till 1936 the theory of quadratic forms dealt almost exclusively with forms over the real field, the complex field or the ring of integers. Only as late as 1937 were the foundations of a theory over an arbitrary field laid. This was in a famous paper by Ernst Witt. Still...

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Main Author: Knus, Max-Albert (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1991.
Edition:1st ed. 1991.
Series:Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, A Series of Comprehensive Studies in Mathematics, 294
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