Topic summary
P-adic
Extracted from the Wikipedia article P-adic number.
p-adic numbers were first described by Kurt Hensel in 1897, though, with hindsight, some of Ernst Kummer's earlier work can be interpreted as implicitly using p-adic numbers.
Topic summary
Extracted from the Wikipedia article P-adic number.
p-adic numbers were first described by Kurt Hensel in 1897, though, with hindsight, some of Ernst Kummer's earlier work can be interpreted as implicitly using p-adic numbers.