A CLASSICAL INTRODUCTION TO MODERN NUMBER THEORY is a well-developed and accessible text that requires only a familiarity with basic abstract algebra. Historical developement is stressed throughout, along with wide-ranging coverage of significant results with comparitively elementary proofs, some of them new. This second edition has been corrected and contains two new chapters which provide a complete proof of the Mordel-Weil theorem for elliptic curves over the rational numbers, and an overview of recent progress on the arithmetic of elliptic curves.
| Author: Kenneth Ireland |
| Publisher: Springer |
| Publication Date: Dec 01, 2010 |
| Number of Pages: 394 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1441930949 |
| ISBN-13: 9781441930941 |
