V5A9 An introduction to Diophantine geometry (SS 24)

Time: Mon 10-12, Wed 8-10.

Room: Hörsaal 6, Hörsaalzentrum.

Office hours: by appointment.

Contents: This is the plan for the course:

• Heights

• Siegel's lemma

• Theorem of Thue-Siegel-Dyson-Roth

• The Weil Height Machine

• Rational and integral points on elliptic curves (theorems of Mordell-Weil and Siegel)

Material: see eCampus.

Link to the evaluation: https://www.umfragen.uni-bonn.de/lehre/Mathe/ 

The first lecture on Wednesday, April 10th, will take place online on Zoom.