Abstract
Dedekind realised that one can give a clear presentation of Gauss’s theory of quadratic forms (Chapter 2), and particularly the composition of classes of forms, when one goes from forms to modules in quadratic fields. Here we consider the modules first and then give the connection between modules and forms.
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Koch, H. (1991). Quadratic forms and quadratic fields. In: Introduction to Classical Mathematics I. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3218-3_21
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