Ranks of Elliptic Curves and Random Matrix Theory

by F. Mezzadri, D.W. Farmer, J.B. Conrey

Book Overview

Random matrix theory is an area of mathematics first developed by physicists interested in the energy levels of atomic nuclei, but it can also be used to describe some exotic phenomena in the number theory of elliptic curves. The purpose of this book is to illustrate this interplay of number theory and random matrices. It begins with an introduction to elliptic curves and the fundamentals of modelling by a family of random matrices, and moves on to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521699649
• ISBN13: 9780521699648
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.9"