Seminars

On rational points of an elliptic curve

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Liang-Zhou Jiang Xie

2009-10-06
17:00:00 - 18:00:00

On rational points of an elliptic curve

505 , Freshman Classroom Building

In this talk, we consider an elliptic curve over Q. We shall show that the group of the rational points on this elliptic curve is finitely generated, which is known as the Mordell theorem. The proof is based on a descent argument.