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Prime numbers, diophantine equations, diophantine approximations, analytic or algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, Galois theory, transcendental number theory, continued fractions

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What is the etymology for the term conductor?

The first time I ever saw a conductor defined is not in the sense mentioned above, but in linear algebra, from Hoffman & Kunze's book. In their chapter on elementary canonical forms they define the co …
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