Timeline for Finiteness of Tate-Shafarevich
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| May 9, 2012 at 21:27 | comment | added | Felipe Voloch | Tate told me that, when he first started thinking about elliptic curves, he assumed that Ш would be finite and that it would be easy to prove it, in analogy with the class group. He then realized that matters were much more difficult. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 13:33 | comment | added | Rob Harron | Perhaps he views the conceptual leap to the Cyrillic alphabet as a real game changer. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 11:08 | comment | added | Charles Matthews | Actually, proving the order a square when finite would seem to be a candidate. But he likes his jokes. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 5:22 | comment | added | KConrad | Cassels has the same footnote ("This is the author's most lasting contribution to the subject") on p. 109 of his Lectures on Elliptic Curves. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 4:00 | history | edited | Rob Harron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
bonus trivia!
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| May 9, 2012 at 3:41 | history | answered | Rob Harron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |