Download or read book LMSST 24 Lectures on Elliptic Curves written by John William Scott Cassels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-contained introductory text for beginning graduate students that is contemporary in approach without ignoring historical matters.
Download or read book LMSST 24 Lectures on Elliptic Curves written by J. W. S. Cassels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of special cases of elliptic curves goes back to Diophantos and Fermat, and today it is still one of the liveliest centers of research in number theory. This book, addressed to beginning graduate students, introduces basic theory from a contemporary viewpoint but with an eye to the historical background. The central portion deals with curves over the rationals: the Mordell-Wei finite basis theorem, points of finite order (Nagell-Lutz), etc. The treatment is structured by the local-global standpoint and culminates in the description of the Tate-Shafarevich group as the obstruction to a Hasse principle. In an introductory section the Hasse principle for conics is discussed. The book closes with sections on the theory over finite fields (the "Riemann hypothesis for function fields") and recently developed uses of elliptic curves for factoring large integers. Prerequisites are kept to a minimum; an acquaintance with the fundamentals of Galois theory is assumed, but no knowledge either of algebraic number theory or algebraic geometry is needed. The p-adic numbers are introduced from scratch. Many examples and exercises are included for the reader, and those new to elliptic curves, whether they are graduate students or specialists from other fields, will find this a valuable introduction.
Download or read book Lectures on Elliptic Curves written by John William Scott Cassels and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of (special cases of) elliptic curves goes back to Diophantos and Fermat, and today it is still one of the liveliest centres of research in number theory. This book, which is addressed to beginning graduate students, introduces basic theory from a contemporary viewpoint but with an eye to the historical background. The central portion deals with curves over the rationals: the Mordell-Weil finite basis theorem, points of finite order (Nagell-Lutz) etc. The treatment is structured by the local-global standpoint and culminates in the description of the Tate-Shafarevich group as the obstruction to a Hasse principle. In an introductory section the Hasse principle for conics is discussed. The book closes with sections on the theory over finite fields (the 'Riemann hypothesis for function fields') and recently developed uses of elliptic curves for factoring large integers. Prerequisites are kept to a minimum; an acquaintance with the fundamentals of Galois theory is assumed, but no knowledge either of algebraic number theory or algebraic geometry is needed. The p-adic numbers are introduced from scratch, as is the little that is needed on Galois cohomology. Many examples and exercises are included for the reader. For those new to elliptic curves, whether they are graduate students or specialists from other fields, this will be a fine introductory text.
Download or read book Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry written by Miles Reid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume honors Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer's mathematical career spanning more than 60 years' of amazing creativity in number theory and algebraic geometry.
Download or read book Introduction to String Theory written by Sergio Cecotti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graduate students typically enter into courses on string theory having little to no familiarity with the mathematical background so crucial to the discipline. As such, this book, based on lecture notes, edited and expanded, from the graduate course taught by the author at SISSA and BIMSA, places particular emphasis on said mathematical background. The target audience for the book includes students of both theoretical physics and mathematics. This explains the book’s "strange" style: on the one hand, it is highly didactic and explicit, with a host of examples for the physicists, but, in addition, there are also almost 100 separate technical boxes, appendices, and starred sections, in which matters discussed in the main text are put into a broader mathematical perspective, while deeper and more rigorous points of view (particularly those from the modern era) are presented. The boxes also serve to further shore up the reader’s understanding of the underlying math. In writing this book, the author’s goal was not to achieve any sort of definitive conciseness, opting instead for clarity and "completeness". To this end, several arguments are presented more than once from different viewpoints and in varying contexts.
Download or read book LMSST written by J. W. S. Cassels and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-contained introductory text for beginning graduate students that is contemporary in approach without ignoring historical matters.
Download or read book Cohomology of Drinfeld Modular Varieties Part 1 Geometry Counting of Points and Local Harmonic Analysis written by Gérard Laumon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1995, Cohomology of Drinfeld Modular Varieties aimed to provide an introduction, in two volumes, both to this subject and to the Langlands correspondence for function fields. These varieties are the analogues for function fields of the Shimura varieties over number fields. The Langlands correspondence is a conjectured link between automorphic forms and Galois representations over a global field. By analogy with the number-theoretic case, one expects to establish the conjecture for function fields by studying the cohomology of Drinfeld modular varieties, which has been done by Drinfeld himself for the rank two case. The present volume is devoted to the geometry of these varieties, and to the local harmonic analysis needed to compute their cohomology. Though the author considers only the simpler case of function rather than number fields, many important features of the number field case can be illustrated.
Download or read book High Primes and Misdemeanours written by Hugh C. Williams and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of a selection of papers based on presentations made at the international conference on number theory held in honor of Hugh Williams' sixtieth birthday. The papers address topics in the areas of computational and explicit number theory and its applications. The material is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in number theory.
Download or read book Complex Multiplication written by Reinhard Schertz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a self-contained 2010 account of the state of the art in classical complex multiplication that includes recent results on rings of integers and applications to cryptography using elliptic curves. The author is exhaustive in his treatment, giving a thorough development of the theory of elliptic functions, modular functions and quadratic number fields and providing a concise summary of the results from class field theory. The main results are accompanied by numerical examples, equipping any reader with all the tools and formulas they need. Topics covered include: the construction of class fields over quadratic imaginary number fields by singular values of the modular invariant j and Weber's tau-function; explicit construction of rings of integers in ray class fields and Galois module structure; the construction of cryptographically relevant elliptic curves over finite fields; proof of Berwick's congruences using division values of the Weierstrass p-function; relations between elliptic units and class numbers.
Download or read book Hilbert Modular Forms and Iwasawa Theory written by Haruzo Hida and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the applications found for the Wiles and Taylor technique, this book generalizes the deformation theoretic techniques of Wiles-Taylor to Hilbert modular forms (following Fujiwara's treatment), and also discusses applications found by the author.
Download or read book Rational Points on Elliptic Curves written by Joseph H. Silverman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of elliptic curves involves a blend of algebra, geometry, analysis, and number theory. This book stresses this interplay as it develops the basic theory, providing an opportunity for readers to appreciate the unity of modern mathematics. The book’s accessibility, the informal writing style, and a wealth of exercises make it an ideal introduction for those interested in learning about Diophantine equations and arithmetic geometry.
Download or read book Prolegomena to a Middlebrow Arithmetic of Curves of Genus 2 written by J. W. S. Cassels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique insight into the topic of curves of genus 2, by two of the world's leading practitioners.
Download or read book Modular Forms and Galois Cohomology written by Haruzo Hida and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive account of recent developments in arithmetic theory of modular forms, for graduates and researchers.
Download or read book Mordell Weil Lattices written by Matthias Schütt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays out the theory of Mordell–Weil lattices, a very powerful and influential tool at the crossroads of algebraic geometry and number theory, which offers many fruitful connections to other areas of mathematics. The book presents all the ingredients entering into the theory of Mordell–Weil lattices in detail, notably, relevant portions of lattice theory, elliptic curves, and algebraic surfaces. After defining Mordell–Weil lattices, the authors provide several applications in depth. They start with the classification of rational elliptic surfaces. Then a useful connection with Galois representations is discussed. By developing the notion of excellent families, the authors are able to design many Galois representations with given Galois groups such as the Weyl groups of E6, E7 and E8. They also explain a connection to the classical topic of the 27 lines on a cubic surface. Two chapters deal with elliptic K3 surfaces, a pulsating area of recent research activity which highlights many central properties of Mordell–Weil lattices. Finally, the book turns to the rank problem—one of the key motivations for the introduction of Mordell–Weil lattices. The authors present the state of the art of the rank problem for elliptic curves both over Q and over C(t) and work out applications to the sphere packing problem. Throughout, the book includes many instructive examples illustrating the theory.
Download or read book L functions and Galois Representations written by David Burns and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely collection of articles bringing together topics at the forefront of the theory, including the local Langlands programme and automorphic forms.
Download or read book p Adic Automorphic Forms on Shimura Varieties written by Haruzo Hida and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-05-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the following three topics in a manner accessible to graduate students who have an understanding of algebraic number theory and scheme theoretic algebraic geometry: 1. An elementary construction of Shimura varieties as moduli of abelian schemes. 2. p-adic deformation theory of automorphic forms on Shimura varieties. 3. A simple proof of irreducibility of the generalized Igusa tower over the Shimura variety. The book starts with a detailed study of elliptic and Hilbert modular forms and reaches to the forefront of research of Shimura varieties associated with general classical groups. The method of constructing p-adic analytic families and the proof of irreducibility was recently discovered by the author. The area covered in this book is now a focal point of research worldwide with many far-reaching applications that have led to solutions of longstanding problems and conjectures. Specifically, the use of p-adic elliptic and Hilbert modular forms have proven essential in recent breakthroughs in number theory (for example, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture by A. Wiles and others). Haruzo Hida is Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles. His previous books include Modular Forms and Galois Cohomology (Cambridge University Press 2000) and Geometric Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves (World Scientific Publishing Company 2000).
Download or read book Why Study Mathematics written by Vicky Neale and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering studying mathematics at university? Wondering whether a mathematics degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it's actually like to study mathematics at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That's where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.
