Brooklyn: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Good with no dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Paperback. 129 pp + 14 pp Appendix + (1) Bibliography. Printed by the Mathematics Department June 1963. Includes Valuations of Rank One; Complete Fields and the Field of p-adic Numbers; Valuation Rings, Places and Valuations; Normed Linear Spaces and Extensions of Valuations, plus the appendix. Buff paper covers with black cloth tape spine. Covers are chipped at bottom front corner, sticker scar to front cover obscuring the word "theory", back cover sunned at edges and chipped at for-edge. Interior paper bit aged and some marks to the title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Very scarce 1st edition of this respected mathematician's early work.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 129 pages .

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Bookseller: Leaf and Stone Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001946
Title: Introduction to P-Adic Numbers and Valuation Theory
Author: Bachman, G. (George)
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Place of Publication: Brooklyn
Date Published: 1963
Keywords: Mathematics
Bookseller catalogs: Antiquarian/Rare; Phys.Science/Math/Engineering; Mathematics;

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