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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299974803321

Autore

Zannier Umberto

Titolo

Lecture Notes on Diophantine Analysis / / by Umberto Zannier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pisa : , : Scuola Normale Superiore : , : Imprint : Edizioni della Normale, , 2014

ISBN

88-7642-517-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 239 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes (Scuola Normale Superiore) ; ; 8

Disciplina

512.74

Soggetti

Mathematical analysis

Analysis (Mathematics)

Analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

These lecture notes originate from a course delivered at the Scuola Normale in Pisa in 2006. Generally speaking, the prerequisites do not go beyond basic mathematical material and are accessible to many undergraduates. The contents mainly concern diophantine problems on affine curves, in practice describing the integer solutions of equations in two variables. This case historically suggested some major ideas for more general problems. Starting with linear and quadratic equations, the important connections with Diophantine Approximation are presented and Thue's celebrated results are proved in full detail. In later chapters more modern issues on heights of algebraic points are dealt with, and applied to a sharp quantitative treatment of the unit equation. The book also contains several Supplements, hinted exercises and an Appendix on recent work on heights.