Timeline for Proofs of Mordell-Weil theorem
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| Aug 8, 2011 at 2:22 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | I did not say Silverman had the BEST possible proof (indeed, I am sure opinions vary on what the best proof is),but it IS pedadgogical, which is all the OP asked for, and the reference was staring him in the face (since he was quoting the wiki article). | |
| Aug 8, 2011 at 0:34 | comment | added | anon | The standard proof of the weak Mordell theorem in Silverman unnecessarily translates the "putative finiteness of $E(L)/nE(L)$ into a statement about certain field extensions of $L$". There are simpler proofs that directly relate the finiteness to the finiteness of the class number of $L$ and the finite generation of its units. | |
| Aug 7, 2011 at 15:21 | history | answered | Igor Rivin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |