Ebook: Elliptic Curves
Author: Anthony W. Knapp
- Genre: History
- Tags: Algebraic Geometry, Geometry & Topology, Mathematics, Science & Math, Mathematical Analysis, Mathematics, Science & Math, Abstract, Algebra, Pure Mathematics, Mathematics, Science & Math, Functional Analysis, Pure Mathematics, Mathematics, Science & Math, Algebra & Trigonometry, Mathematics, Science & Mathematics, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique, Geometry, Mathematics, Science & Mathematics, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique
- Series: Mathematical Notes 40
- Year: 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Elliptic curves and the modeular forms in the Eichler-Shimura theory both have associated L functions, and it is a consequence of the theory that the two kinds of L functions match. The theory covered by Anthony Knapp in this book is, therefore, a window into a broad expanse of mathematics—including class field theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and group representations—in which the concidence of L functions relates analysis and algebra in the most fundamental ways.
Developing, with many examples, the elementary theory of elliptic curves, the book goes on to the subject of modular forms and the first connections with elliptic curves. The last two chapters concern Eichler-Shimura theory, which establishes a much deeper relationship between the two subjects. No other book in print treats the basic theory of elliptic curves with only undergraduate mathematics, and no other explains Eichler-Shimura theory in such an accessible manner.