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- From: victor@watson.ibm.com (Victor Miller)
- Subject: Re: Gaussian sums
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- In-Reply-To: leife@ii.uib.no's message of 30 Dec 92 13:04:10 GMT
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:18:37 GMT
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- >>>>> On 30 Dec 92 13:04:10 GMT, leife@ii.uib.no (Leif Erik R. Hauge) said:
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- Leif> --- GAUSSIAN SUMS ---
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- Leif> I need to know something about the Gaussian sums.
- Leif> What are they? How are they defined? To which
- Leif> part of math do they belong (algebra? Numb. theory?)
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- Leif> I would also like to read an easy introduction to the
- Leif> theory of Gaussian sums. Do you know some standard textbooks
- Leif> which give such an introduction?
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- Leif> Any help appreciated!
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- Leif> Erik
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- Gauss Sums are essentially fourier transforms of multplicative
- characters. They are quite important in the theory of algebraic
- numbers. There are lots of books that discuss them. A good book to
- start is:
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- Ireland & Rosen "A Classical Introductions to Modern Number Theory",
- Springer Graduate Texts in Math #84.
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