
The local-global principle
... positive influences: Hensel used them to solve a conjecture of Dedekind about discriminants in algebraic number theory and they directly inspired Steinitz [10] to develop a general theory of fields in order to account for the p-adic numbers alongside previously known fields of numbers and functions. ...
... positive influences: Hensel used them to solve a conjecture of Dedekind about discriminants in algebraic number theory and they directly inspired Steinitz [10] to develop a general theory of fields in order to account for the p-adic numbers alongside previously known fields of numbers and functions. ...