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1568078
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Book Information:
Author:
Anthony W. Knapp
Title:
Elliptic curves
Additional book information:
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992, xv+427 pp., US$24.95. ISBN 0-691-08559-5.
E. Artin, Quadratische Körper im Gebiete der höheren Kongruenzen. I, Math. Z. 19 (1924), no. 1, 153–206 (German). MR 1544651, DOI 10.1007/BF01181074
Joe P. Buhler, Icosahedral Galois representations, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 654, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1978. MR 0506171
J. E. Cremona, Algorithms for modular elliptic curves, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. MR 1201151
Anthony W. Knapp, Representation theory of semisimple groups, Princeton Mathematical Series, vol. 36, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1986. An overview based on examples. MR 855239, DOI 10.1515/9781400883974
André Weil, Number theory, Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1984. An approach through history; From Hammurapi to Legendre. MR 734177, DOI 10.1007/978-0-8176-4571-7
- [A]
- E. Artin, Quadratische Körper im Gebiet der höheren Kongruenzen. I, II, Math. Z. 19 (1924), 153-246. MR 1544651
- [B]
- J. Buhler, Icosahedral Galois representations, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 654, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1978. MR 0506171 (58:22019)
- [C]
- J. E. Cremona, Algorithms for modular elliptic curves, Cambridge Univ. Press, London and New York, 1992. MR 1201151 (93m:11053)
- [K]
- Anthony W. Knapp, Representation theory of semisimple groups: An overview based on examples, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1986. MR 855239 (87j:22022)
- [W]
- André Weil, Number theory, an approach through history, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1984. MR 734177 (85c:01004)
Review Information:
Reviewer:
R. P. Langlands
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
30 (1994), 96-100
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00455-0
