Download or read book Orderings, Valuations and Quadratic Forms written by Tsit-Yuen Lam and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to ordered fields and reduced quadratic forms using valuation-theoretic techniques. This book describes the techniques of residue forms and the relevant Springer theory.