Skip to content

Class field theory can be divided into two parts, local and global. In each part it is the study of all the abelian extensions of a certain base field. The underlying philosophy is to describe all abelian extensions in terms of objects residing within, or close to, the base field.

— O. Timothy O'Meara

Another quote →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: O. Timothy O'Meara (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.