Avner Ash, Robert Groß

Broschiertes Buch

Elliptic Tales

Curves, Counting, and Number Theory

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Avner Ash is professor of mathematics at Boston College. Robert Gross is associate professor of mathematics at Boston College. They are the coauthors of Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers (Princeton).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780691163505
• ISBN-10: 0691163502
• Artikelnr.: 40818232

Rezensionen

"The authors of Elliptic Tales do a superb job in demonstrating the approach that mathematicians take when they confront unsolved problems involving elliptic curves."--Sungkon Chang, Times Higher Education