This monograph presents the central ideas of the arithmetic theory of quadratic forms in self-contained form, assuming only knowledge of the fundamentals of mat

Provides an introduction to quadratic forms.

The arithmetic theory of quadratic forms is a rich branch of number theory that has had important applications to several areas of pure mathematics - particular

This book is divided into two parts. The first part is preliminary and consists of algebraic number theory and the theory of semisimple algebras. There are two