From: "Steve Mayer" <mayer@dialDOT.pipexDOT.com>
Subject: p-adic lecture notes
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:15:16 -0000
Newsgroups: sci.math
Summary: [missing]

A week or two ago there was some interest in my posting of the URL of a set
of lecture notes on p-adic numbers, in response to a query. This is a
self-contained course aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates.
Andrew Baker, the author, has now updated the notes to include a
bibliography and the exercise sets he refers to in the notes. They can be
found at:
http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~ajb/course-notes.html

There is also a set of notes on p-adic Analytic Number Theory by M. Ram
Murty at
http://iris.mri.ernet.in/~mathweb/lecture/murty-padic00/
These notes cover similar ground to those of Andrew Baker but take a more
detailed look at Bernouilli Numbers and go on to consider p-adic
L-functions. It also includes an elementary proof of Ostrowski's fascinating
result that there are essentially only 2 possible norms on Q, the absolute
value and the p-adic norm.

Steve Mayer