The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Tate's CMI Paris Talk
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Slides
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20 minutes: Intro to arithmetic of curves
23 minutes: Group law on elliptic curves
26.5 minutes: Gets interesting (curves of large rank)
30 minutes: State BSD conjecture
36 minutes: Finishes.
Clay Math Inst One Million Prize Page
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Wiles's Paper
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Some Photographs
of Birch, Swinnerton-Dyer, and others.
Ariel Shwayder's Graphs of
L(E,s)
Notes for today