Lectures on the Mordell-Weil Theorem

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Serre, Jean Pierre
Format: eBook
Language:German
Published: Wiesbaden Vieweg+Teubner Verlag 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Aspects of Mathematics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Summary
  • 2. Heights
  • 3. Normalised heights
  • 4. The Mordell-Weil theorem
  • 5. Mordell’s conjecture
  • 6. Local calculation of normalised heights
  • 7. Siegel’s method
  • 8. Baker’s method
  • 9. Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem
  • 10. Construction of Galois extensions
  • 11. Construction of elliptic curves of large rank
  • 12. The large sieve
  • 13. Applications of the large sieve to thin sets
  • Appendix: The class number 1 problem and integral points on modular curves