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Topics in Diophantine Equations

Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNMCIME,volume 2009)

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These notes fall into two parts. The first part, which goes up to the end of Sect. 5, is a general survey of some of the topics in the theory of Diophantine equations which interest me and on which I hope to see progress within the next 10 years.

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  • Elliptic Curve
  • Elliptic Curf
  • Algebraic Number
  • Diophantine Equation
  • Weak Approximation

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Swinnerton-Dyer, P. (2011). Topics in Diophantine Equations. In: Corvaja, P., Gasbarri, C. (eds) Arithmetic Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15945-9_2

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