Lectures on Elliptic Curves

Elliptic curves constitute one of the oldest and liveliest centres of research in number theory today. This book, which is addressed to beginning graduate students, introduces basic theory from a contemporary viewpoint but with an eye to the historical background. Prerequisites are kept to a minimum; an acquaintance with the fundamentals of Galois theory is assumed, but no knowledge either of algebraic number theory or algebraic geometry is needed. Many examples and exercises are included for the reader. For those new to elliptic curves, whether they are graduate students or specialists from other fields, this will be a fine introductory text.Cassels, J. W. S. is the author of 'Lectures on Elliptic Curves' with ISBN 9780521425308 and ISBN 0521425301.