p-adic numbers and p-adic groups

Speaker


Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
Date
Thu February 5th 2015, 4:15pm
Event Sponsor
Mathematics Research Center
Location
Building 380, Room 380W
MRC Event Series

Introduce the p-adic numbers Qp and the subring of padic integers Zp. Like the real numbers, the p-adic numbers are a completion of the rational numbers where one can do analysis.

You can learn more about Professor Benedict Gross at http://abel.math.harvard.edu/~gross/