On the youthful writings of Louis J. Mordell on the Diophantine equation \(y^2-k=x^3\)

DOI10.1007/s00407-019-00231-1zbMath1420.11004OpenAlexW2954030947MaRDI QIDQ2313947

François Lê, Sébastien Gauthier

Publication date: 25 July 2019

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-019-00231-1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) History of number theory (11-03) Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25)

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