%0 Book Section
%T p-adic numbers and non-Archimedean valuations
publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%D 1999
%U 977-5945-00-3
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60621
%X This is an expository article on p-adic fields. It contains a historical introduction and a construction of the p-adic number field by completion for the p-adic distance overQ. The paper concludes with the Hasse-Minkowski theorem for quadratic forms and the definition of Henselian fields.
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