The congruent number problem
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Mon, 28/05/2012 16:00 |
Frank Gounelas |
Junior Number Theory Seminar  |
SR1 |
| Which positive integers are the area of a right angled triangle with rational sides? In this talk I will discuss this classical problem, its reformulation in terms of rational points on elliptic curves and Tunnell's theorem which gives a complete solution to this problem assuming the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. | |||