Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2012
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- Title
- Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory
- Author
- Avner Ash and Robert Gross
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691151199
- ISBN 13
- 9780691151199
A look at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in mathematics today
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.
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