TY - GEN AU - Rosen, Michael TI - Number theory in function fields SN - 9781441929549 U1 - 512.7 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Number theory KW - Finite fields - Algebra KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Geometry, Algebraic KW - Mathematics N1 - Includes bibliography and index N2 - Early in the development of number theory, it was noticed that the ring of integers has many properties in common with the ring of polynomials over a finite field. The later chapters probe the analogy between global function fields and algebraic number fields ER -