TY - BOOK AU - Baumgart, Oswald TI - The Quadratic Reciprocity Law SN - 978-3-319-16283-6 CY - New York: PB - Springer N1 - Presentation of the Proofs of the Quadratic Reciprocity Law From Fermat to Legendre Gauss’s Proof by Mathematical Induction Proof by Reduction Eisenstein’s Proof Using Complex Analysis Proofs Using Results from Cyclotomy Proofs Based on the Theory of Quadratic Forms The Supplementary Laws of the Quadratic Reciprocity Law and the Generalized Reciprocity Law Algorithms for Determining the Quadratic Character Comparative Presentation of the Principles on Which the Proofs of the Quadratic Reciprocity Law Are Based Gauss’s Proof by Induction Proofs by Reduction Eisenstein’s Proofs Using Complex Analysis Proofs Using Results from Cyclotomy Proofs Based on the Theory of Quadratic Forms Final Comments Proofs of the Quadratic Reciprocity Law UR - http://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-16282-9 ER -