Download or read book Number Fields and Function Fields – Two Parallel Worlds written by Gerard van der Geer and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invited articles by leading researchers explore various aspects of the parallel worlds of function fields and number fields Topics range from Arakelov geometry, the search for a theory of varieties over the field with one element, via Eisenstein series to Drinfeld modules, and t-motives Aimed at graduate students, mathematicians, and researchers interested in geometry and arithmetic and their connections