Time: the second semester.
Credit: 3 hours.
Period: 54 hours.
Previous courses: Elementary Number Theory, Abstract Algebra, Basic                                  Analytic Number Theory

Course contents:

(1) Elliptic Curves;
(2) The L-functions of Elliptic Curves.

References:

(1) A. Knapp, Elliptic curves, Princeton University Press.
(2) N. Koblitz, Introduction to Elliptic Curves and modular Forms, Springer-Verlag,       GTM97.
(3) J. H. Silverman, The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves, Springer-Verlag, GTM106.