B4.6

Number Fields | Part II, 2002

Write an essay on one the following topics.

(i) Dirichlet's unit theorem and the Pell equation.

(ii) Ideals and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.

(iii) Dedekind's theorem and the factorisation of primes. (You should treat explicitly either the case of quadratic fields or that of the cyclotomic field.)

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