Elementary and Analytic Theory of Algebraic Numbers

The aim of this book is to present an exposition of the theory of alge­ braic numbers, excluding class-field theory and its consequences. There are many ways to develop this subject; the latest trend is to neglect the classical Dedekind theory of ideals in favour of local methods. However, for numeri­ cal computations, necessary for applications of algebraic numbers to other areas of number theory...