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Beginning with a brief introduction to algorithms and diophantine equations, this volume aims to provide a coherent account of the methods used to find all the solutions to certain diophantine equations, particularly those procedures which have been developed for use on a computer. The study is divided into three parts, the emphasis throughout being on examining approaches with a wide range of applications. The first section considers basic techniques including local methods, sieving, descent arguments and the LLL algorithm. The second section explores problems which can be solved using Baker's theory of linear forms in logarithms. The final section looks at problems associated with curves, mainly focusing on rational and integral points on elliptic curves. Each chapter concludes with a useful set of exercises. A detailed bibliography is included. This book will appeal to graduate students and research workers, with a basic knowledge of number theory, who are interested in solving diophantine equations using computational methods.

Diophantine equations. --- Diophantic equations --- Equations, Diophantic --- Equations, Diophantine --- Equations, Indefinite --- Equations, Indeterminate --- Indefinite equations --- Indeterminate equations --- Diophantine analysis

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This self-contained book will benefit beginners as well as researchers. It is devoted to Diophantine approximation, the analytic theory of Dirichlet series, and some connections between these two domains, which often occur through the Kronecker approximation theorem. Accordingly, the book is divided into seven chapters, the first three of which present tools from commutative harmonic analysis, including a sharp form of the uncertainty principle, ergodic theory and Diophantine approximation to be used in the sequel. A presentation of continued fraction expansions, including the mixing property of the Gauss map, is given. Chapters four and five present the general theory of Dirichlet series, with classes of examples connected to continued fractions, the famous Bohr point of view, and then the use of random Dirichlet series to produce non-trivial extremal examples, including sharp forms of the Bohnenblust-Hille theorem. Chapter six deals with Hardy-Dirichlet spaces, which are new and useful Banach spaces of analytic functions in a half-plane. Finally, chapter seven presents the Bagchi-Voronin universality theorems, for the zeta function, and r-tuples of L functions. The proofs, which mix hilbertian geometry, complex and harmonic analysis, and ergodic theory, are a very good illustration of the material studied earlier.

Mathematics. --- Mathematics, general. --- Diophantine equations --- Numerical solutions. --- Diophantic equations --- Equations, Diophantic --- Equations, Diophantine --- Equations, Indefinite --- Equations, Indeterminate --- Indefinite equations --- Indeterminate equations --- Diophantine analysis --- Math --- Science

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Harold Davenport was one of the truly great mathematicians of the twentieth century. Based on lectures he gave at the University of Michigan in the early 1960s, this book is concerned with the use of analytic methods in the study of integer solutions to Diophantine equations and Diophantine inequalities. It provides an excellent introduction to a timeless area of number theory that is still as widely researched today as it was when the book originally appeared. The three main themes of the book are Waring's problem and the representation of integers by diagonal forms, the solubility in integers of systems of forms in many variables, and the solubility in integers of diagonal inequalities. For the second edition of the book a comprehensive foreword has been added in which three prominent authorities describe the modern context and recent developments. A thorough bibliography has also been added.

Diophantine analysis. --- Diophantine equations. --- Diophantic equations --- Equations, Diophantic --- Equations, Diophantine --- Equations, Indefinite --- Equations, Indeterminate --- Indefinite equations --- Indeterminate equations --- Diophantine analysis --- Indeterminate analysis --- Number theory --- Forms, Quadratic

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511.5 --- Diophantine equations --- 511.5 Diophantine equations --- Diophantine analysis --- Diophantic equations --- Equations, Diophantic --- Equations, Diophantine --- Equations, Indefinite --- Equations, Indeterminate --- Indefinite equations --- Indeterminate equations --- Indeterminate analysis --- Number theory --- Forms, Quadratic

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Diophantine equations over number fields have formed one of the most important and fruitful areas of mathematics throughout civilisation. In recent years increasing interest has been aroused in the analogous area of equations over function fields. However, although considerable progress has been made by previous authors, none has attempted the central problem of providing methods for the actual solution of such equations. The latter is the purpose and achievement of this volume: algorithms are provided for the complete resolution of various families of equations, such as those of Thue, hyperelliptic and genus one type. The results are achieved by means of an original fundamental inequality, first announced by the author in 1982. Several specific examples are included as illustrations of the general method and as a testimony to its efficiency. Furthermore, bounds are obtained on the solutions which improve on those obtained previously by other means. Extending the equality to a different setting, namely that of positive characteristic, enables the various families of equations to be resolved in that circumstance. Finally, by applying the inequality in a different manner, simple bounds are determined on their solutions in rational functions of the general superelliptic equation. This book represents a self-contained account of a new approach to the subject, and one which plainly has not reached the full extent of its application. It also provides a more direct on the problems than any previous book. Little expert knowledge is required to follow the theory presented, and it will appeal to professional mathematicians, research students and the enthusiastic undergraduate.

Diophantine equations. --- Algebraic fields. --- Algebraic number fields --- Algebraic numbers --- Fields, Algebraic --- Algebra, Abstract --- Algebraic number theory --- Rings (Algebra) --- Diophantic equations --- Equations, Diophantic --- Equations, Diophantine --- Equations, Indefinite --- Equations, Indeterminate --- Indefinite equations --- Indeterminate equations --- Diophantine analysis