Elliptic tales
Subtitle: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780691163505
Notes: First published 2012
Sixth printing and first paperback printing, 2014
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xiii; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xix; title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; title: Degree
label: Part I; label: 1
pagenum: 13
title: Degree of a Curve; label: 2
pagenum: 26
title: Algebraic Closures; label: 3
pagenum: 42
title: The Projective Plane; label: 4
pagenum: 67
title: Multiplicities and Degree; label: 5
pagenum: 82
title: Bézout's Theorem; title: Elliptic Curves and Algebra
label: Part II; label: 6
pagenum: 95
title: Transition to Elliptic Curves; label: 7
pagenum: 100
title: Abelian Groups; label: 8
pagenum: 116
title: Nonsingular Cubic Equations; label: 9
pagenum: 135
title: Singular Cubics; label: 10
pagenum: 152
title: Elliptic Curves over Q; title: Elliptic Curves and Analysis
label: Part III; label: 11
pagenum: 161
title: Building Functions; label: 12
pagenum: 181
title: Analytic Continuation; label: 13
pagenum: 199
title: L-functions; label: 14
pagenum: 215
title: Surprising Properties of L-functions; label: 15
pagenum: 225
title: The Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 245; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 249; title: Index
pagenum: 251