Definition:P-adic Number/Historical Note
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Historical Note on P-adic Number
The $p$-adic numbers were invented by Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel in $1897$ in order to bring the methods of power series to number theoretical problems.
Sources
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $p$-adic number