Lectures on the Mordell-Weil Theorem
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Jean-Pierre Serre
Lectures on the Mordell-Weil Theorem Third Edition
Jean-Pierre Serre
Lectures on the Mordell-Weil Theorem
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Edited by Klas Diederich Vol. E 3:
G. Hector/U. Hirsch: Introduction to the Geometry of Foliations, Part B
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P. Stiller: Automorphic Forms and the Picard Number of on Elliptic Surface
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R. Huber: Etale Cohomology of Rigid AnalytiC Varieties and Adic Spaces
* A Publication af the Max-Planck-Institut fUr Mathematik,
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Jean-Pierre Serre
Lectures on the Mordell-Weil Theorem Translated and edited by Martin Brown from notes by Michel Waldschmidt 3rd edition
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
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Prof. lean-Pierre Serre College de France Chaire d'Algebre et Geometrie 75005 Paris AMS Subject Classification: 14 G 13, 14 K 10, 14 K 15 1st edition 1989 2nd edition 1990 3rd edition 1997
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Foreword
This is a translation of "Autour du theoreme de Mordell-Well", a course given by J.-P. Serre at the College de France in 1980 and 1981. These notes were originally written weekly by Michel Waldschmidt and have been reproduced by Publications Mathematiques de l'Universite de Paris VI, by photocopying the handwritten