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Elliptic tales : curves, counting, and number theory / Avner Ash, Robert Gross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ash, Avner, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elliptic functions.
- Curves, Elliptic.
- Number theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathematics-the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. In this book, Avner Ash and Robert Gross guide readers through the mathematics they need to understand this captivating problem.The key to the conjecture lies in elliptic curves, which may appear simple, but arise from some very deep-and often very mystifying-mathematical ideas. Using only basic algebra and calculus while presenting numerous eye-opening examples, Ash and Gross make these ideas accessible to general readers, and, in the process, venture to the very frontiers of modern mathematics.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Degree
- pt. 2. Elliptic curves and algebra
- pt. 3. Elliptic curves and analysis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613439758
- 9781283439756
- 1283439751
- 9781400841714
- 1400841712
- OCLC:
- 773567194
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