The Unit Group of a Real Quadratic Field
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چکیده
While the unit group of an imaginary quadratic field is very simple, the unit group of a real quadratic field has nontrivial structure. Its study involves some geometry and analysis, but also it relates to Pell's equation and continued fractions, topics from elementary number theory.
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