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The theory of Diophantine equations is that branch of number theory which deals with the solution of polynomial equations in either integers or rational numbers. The subject itself is named after one of the greatest of the ancient Greek algebraists, Diophantus of Alexandria,1 who formulated and solved many such problems.
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Silverman, J.H., Tate, J. (1992). Introduction. In: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4252-7_1
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