TY - CHAP AU - Corrales Rodrigáñez, Carmen A4 - Fainsilber, Laura A4 - Hobbs, Catherine PY - 1999 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60621 AB - 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... M2 - 49 PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation TI - p-adic numbers and non-Archimedean valuations TY - book part ER -