This volume contains the expanded lectures given at a conference on number theory and arithmetic geometry held at Boston University. It introduces and explains

These proceedings are based on a conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, held in response to Andrew Wile's conjecture that every elliptic curve over

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First published in 1979 and written by two distinguished mathematicians with a special gift for exposition, this book is now available in a completely revised t