The Weil conjectures
In discussing the question of rational points on algebraic curves, we are usually concerned with ℚ. André Weil looked instead at curves over finite fields; assembling the counts into a function, he discovered that it always had some surprising properties. His conjectures, posed in 1949 and since p...
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3526 |