18.785 - Number Theory I


SCHEDULE

# Date Topic (references) Materials
19/10Absolute values and discrete valuations notes
29/15Localization and Dedekind domainsnotes
39/17Unique factorization of ideals in Dedekind domains, approximationnotes
49/22Étale algebras, norm and trace, Dedekind extensionsnotes
59/24Factoring primes in Dedekind extensionsnotes
69/29Ideal norms and the Dedekind-Kummer thoeremnotes
710/1Orders in Dedekind domains, primes in Galois extensionsnotes
810/6Frobenius elements, the Artin map, completionsnotes
910/9Local fields and extensions of complete DVRsnotes
1010/15Extensions of complete DVRsnotes
1110/20Completing extensions, different and discriminant idealsnotes
1210/22Ramification, Haar measure, the product formulanotes
1310/27The Minkowski bound, finiteness resultsnotes
1410/29Dirichlet's unit theoremnotes
1511/03The Riemann zeta function and the Prime Number Theoremnotes
1611/05The functional equationnotes
1711/10Dirichlet characters and primes in arithmetic progressionsnotes
1811/12The analytic class number formulanotes
1911/17The Kronecker-Weber theoremnotes
2011/19Class field theory, ray class groups and ray class fieldsnotes
2111/24Statement of the main theorems of global class field theorynotes
2212/1The ring of adeles, strong approximationnotes
2312/3The idele group, profinite groups, infinite Galois theorynotes
2412/8Local class field theorynotes
2512/10Global class field theory and the Chebotarev density theoremnotes