Date of Award
6-2011
Document Type
Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Department
Mathematics
First Advisor
Karl Zimmermann
Language
English
Keywords
p-adic, real numbers, norm function, rationals, computations
Abstract
One way to construct the real numbers involves creating equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers with respect to the usual absolute value. But, with a different absolute value we construct a completely different set of numbers called the p-adic numbers, and denoted Qp.
Recommended Citation
Harrington, Charles I., "An Introduction to the p-adic Numbers" (2011). Honors Theses. 992.
https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/992