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Serge lang was an influential mathematician in the field of number theory. Advanced topics in computational number theory, henri cohen. I will assign reading and homework exercises from it, so you need to have a copy available. Finally, i thank serge lang for giving me the opportunity to work on this solutions manual, and i also thank my brother karim and steve miller for. It begins with an exposition of the basic theory of vector spaces and proceeds to explain the fundamental structure theorems for linear maps, including eigenvectors and eigenvalues, quadric and hermitian forms, diagonalization of symmetric, hermitian, and unitary linear maps and matrices, triangulation. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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