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Professor of Mathematics, Brown University. Primary interests: number theory, arithmetic geometry, elliptic curves, arithmetic dynamics, cryptography.
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Equidistribution relative to the Zariski topology

jan 22 11 at 18:40 Joe Silverman 8,075●24●47

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Origin of square-and-multiply algorithm

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‘Important’ applications of p-adic numbers outside of algebra (and number theory). (2)
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unboundedness of number of integral points on elliptic curves?
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The rank of a class elliptic curves
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Intuition behind the Tamagawa numbers
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Julia sets using other fields
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Primitive roots
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Advances and difficulties in effective version of Thue-Roth-Siegel Theorem
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Smart elliptic curve rational point search given Reg*#Sha
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Properties of rational functions
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Emptyness of a projective variety
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is a closed subscheme of the projective line closed under the action of Gal(Qbar/Q)
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Conjectures on iterated polynomial maps on finite fields
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elliptic curve with a degree 2 isogeny to itself?
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Finiteness of elliptic curves of a given conductor
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Effective Mordell
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Neron models of elliptic curves with level N structure?
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