Title Prolegomena to a middlebrow arithmetic of curves of genus 2 / J.W.S. Cassels, E.V. Flynn.

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 230
	London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 230.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.
Contents	Ch. 1. Curves of genus 2 -- Ch. 2. Construction of the jacobian -- Ch. 3. The Kummer surface -- Ch. 4. The dual of the Kummer -- Ch. 5. Weddle's surface -- Ch. 6. [actual symbol not reproducible] -- Ch. 7. The jacobian over local fields. Formal groups -- Ch. 8. Torsion -- Ch. 9. The isogeny. Theory -- Ch. 10. The isogeny. Applications -- Ch. 11. Computing the Mordell-Weil group -- Ch. 12. Heights -- Ch. 13. Rational points. Chabauty's Theorem -- Ch. 14. Reducible jacobians -- Ch. 15. The endomorphism ring -- Ch. 16. The desingularized Kummer -- Ch. 17. A neoclassical approach -- Ch. 18. Zukunftsmusik -- Appendix I. MAPLE programs -- Appendix II. Files available by anonymous ftp.
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Subject	Curves, Algebraic.
	Curves, Algebraic.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Flynn, E. V.
Other Form:	Print version: Cassels, J.W.S. (John William Scott). Prolegomena to a middlebrow arithmetic of curves of genus 2. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996 0521483700 (DLC) 96011647 (OCoLC)34354795
ISBN	9781107362178 (electronic book)
	1107362172 (electronic book)
	0521483700
	9780521483704
	9780511526084