Alexander Prestel Books
Numbers
By Hans Hermes, Jurgen Neukirch, Heinz Dieter Ebbinghaus, Reinhold Remmert, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Alexander Prestel, Max Koecher, Klaus Mainzer
This is a book about numbers - all kinds of numbers, from integers to p-adics, from rationals to octonions, from reals to infinitesimals. Who first used the standard notation for Â? Why was Hamilto...
Read MoreLectures on Formally Real Fields
By A. Prestel
Absolute values and their completions - like the p-adic number fields- play an important role in number theory. Krull's generalization of absolute values to valuations made applications in other br...
Read MorePositive Polynomials
Positivity is one of the most basic mathematical concepts. In many areas of mathematics (like analysis, real algebraic geometry, functional analysis, etc.) it shows up as positivity of a polynomial...
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