Reid L.W. The Elements of the Theory of Algebraic Numbers

The Macmillan Company, 1910. - 474 pages.This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.It has been my endeavor in this book to lead by easy stages a reader, entirely unacquainted with the subject, to an appreciation of some of the fundamental conceptions in the general theory of algebraic numbers. With this object in view, I have treated the theory of rational integers more in the manner of the general theory than is usual, and have emphasized those properties of these integers which find their analogues in the general theory. The same may be said of the general quadratic realm, which has been treated rather as an example of the general realm of the nth degree than simply as of the second degree, as little use as was possible, without too great sacrifice of simplicity, being made of the special properties of the quadratic realm in the proofs.