Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-49894-2
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The central theme of this graduate-level number theory textbook is the solution of Diophantine equations, i.e., equations or systems of polynomial equations which must be solved in integers, rational numbers or more generally in algebraic numbers. This theme, in particular, is the central motivation for the modern theory of arithmetic algebraic geometry. In this text, this is considered through three aspects.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, algebra, diophantine equation, finite field, geometry, number theory