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| | Lecture Summary MP473, Number Theory IIIH/IVH |
 | | ), the primitive element theorem, norm and trace |
 | | under the isomorphisms of K, discriminant of a field basis, non-vanishing of the discriminant, effect of change of basis on the discriminant, discriminant in terms of conjugates of basis elements, resultant R(f(x),g(x)) of two polynomials, R(f(x),g(x))=0 if and only if f(x) and g(x) have a non-trivial factor in common, Disc(f(x)) the discriminant of f(x). |
 | | and f=degree(P), the Kummer-Dedekind theorem describing the prime ideal decomposition of (p) for almost all p, examples: quadratic and cyclotomic fields. |
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