Seminar series
Date
Mon, 28 May 2012
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
SR1
Speaker
Frank Gounelas
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.