Download or read book A Course in p-adic Analysis written by Alain M. Robert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered at the turn of the 20th century, p-adic numbers are frequently used by mathematicians and physicists. This text is a self-contained presentation of basic p-adic analysis with a focus on analytic topics. It offers many features rarely treated in introductory p-adic texts such as topological models of p-adic spaces inside Euclidian space, a special case of Hazewinkel’s functional equation lemma, and a treatment of analytic elements.