Timeline for Algorithms for finding rational points on an elliptic curve?
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| Nov 20, 2010 at 21:37 | comment | added | William Stein | Having seen many beginners learn about the descent algorithm, both from the perspective of Silverman-Tate and Galois cohomology, I think it's probably better for even a beginner to just learn Galois cohomology and learn descent the right way. All the notation and equations in the presentation in Silverman-Tate really obscure what is going on, in my experience. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 1:32 | comment | added | Victor Miller | A beginner would be much better off starting off with "Rational Points on Elliptic Curves" by Silverman and Tate (aka Tate's Haverford Lectures). | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 14:04 | history | answered | Robin Chapman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |