A brief introduction to p-adic numbers
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
In this short survey we look at a few basic features of p-adic numbers, somewhat with the point of view of a classical analyst. In particular, with p-adic numbers one has arithmetic operations and a norm, just as for real or complex numbers.
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@article{arxiv.math/0301035,
title = {A brief introduction to p-adic numbers},
author = {Stephen Semmes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0301035},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, latex-2e. Minor changes