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Author(s): Joseph H. Silverman and John T. Tate
Title: Rational points on elliptic curves
Additional book information: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York and Berlin, 1992 (first ed. 1989), x+281 pp., US$29.95. ISBN 0-387-97825-9

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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
William R. Hearst III

Reviewer(s):
Kenneth A. Ribet

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (1994), 248-252.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00465-3
PII: S 0273-0979(1994)00465-3




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