ELLIPTIC CURVES

Übung Mi 29.6. entfält wegen New Work Auftaktgespräch
Lectures: Di 14:15-15:45 Geom H4 & Do 12:15-13:45 Geom H3
Exercises: Mi 10:15-11:45 Geom 431
Exams: Each particioant has to give a talk in the exercise classes and there will be an extra homework, resp. TakeHomeExam, at the end of the semester, which will be the basis for an oral examinination

Topics for the extra talks (each for a team of 2 persons):
Archimedes Cattle problem and the Pell equation: I. Vardi
The Congruent Number Problem and elliptic curves: V. Chandesakar
A survey on Elliptic surfaces: J. Silverman; M. Schütt, T. Shioda
Counting covers of elliptic curves: M. Kaneko, D. Zagier; O. Marigliano BSc-thesis; M. Roth, Notes and Maple program
Literature:
J. Milne: Elliptic curves
J. Silverman: The arithmetic of ellptic curves
A. Knapp: Elliptic curves

Software tools to study elliptic curves:
Gruppenoperation auf elliptischen Kurven mit GeoBra
Elliptic curves in Pari/GP
Elliptic curves in Sage

Additional literature:
K. Ueno: Algebraic geometry I-III, AMS
K. Hulek: Elementare algebraische Geometrie, Springer Spektrum
R. Hartshorne: Algebraic Geometry, GTM Springer
D. Mumford: The Red book of Varieties ans Schemes, LNM Springer
M. Miyanishi: Algebraic Geometry, AMS
D. Perrin: Geometrie algebrique, CNRS
U. Görtz, T. Wedhorn: Algebraic Geometry, Vieweg
Q. Liu: Arithmetic and algebraic curves, Oxford