Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory

by Robert Gross and Avner Ash

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691151199
• ISBN13: 9780691151199
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"