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This is a survey on one of the oldest questions in Mathematics: Find a process (algorithm) to decide whether a given curve has points with rational co-ordinates or not - or prove that no such process exists. The expectation is that there is a process and the optimism comes mainly from the major relevant advances of the previous century (e.g. the proof of Mordell's Conjecture). The article introduces the subject from various points of view (Number Theory, Conjectures of Lang and Bombieri, Hilbert's tenth problem, relevant results in Logic) and has an extensive bibliography. Especially the non-expert, who wants to have a quick introduction and a qualitative overview of the subject, may prefer to start with this article. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1002.00007].