This well-developed, accessible text details the historical development of the subject throughout. It also provides wide-ranging coverage of significant results with comparatively elementary proofs, some of them new. This second edition contains two new chapters that provide a complete proof of the Mordel-Weil theorem for elliptic curves over the rational numbers and an overview of recent progress on the arithmetic of elliptic curves.
- ISBN13 9780387973296
- Publish Date 1 August 1998 (first published 26 April 1982)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Edition 2nd ed. 1990. Corr. 5th printing 1998
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 394
- Language English