Math 311 Course Page

Texts

Core text: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves by Silverman and Tate; ISBN: 978-0-387-97825
Some other books you might try and find in the library (I'll put them on reserve, if necessary)
- Elliptic curves : number theory and cryptography by Larry Washington (ISBN: 9781420071467)
- Elliptic curves by Anthony Knapp (ISBN: 0691085595)
- Lectures on elliptic curves by J.W.S Cassells (ISBN: 0521415179)
- Elliptic curvers by Dale Husemoller (ISBN: 0387963715)
- Introduction to elliptic curves and modular forms by Neal Koblitz (ISBN: 0387960295)
- Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves by Silverman
A repository of scans from books (password required)
Mathworld has a bunch of information on some of the stuff we're talking about
On line course notes I have not read but you might find useful:
Sage, the computer algebra system used in this course

Elementary number theory: the ring of integers mod n, Chinese remainder theorem, Miller-Rabin, primitive roots
Rational and integer points on lines and conics
Projective Geometry
Cubic curves
Points of finite order
The group of rational points
Cubic curves over finite fields
Elliptic curve cryptography

In this course I'll expect the following of each of you:

1 midterm exam (February 11th) -- 10%
1 oral final exam (the week of April 13) -- 20%
12 homework assignments (due most Fridays) -- 20%
5 labs (assigned Jan 30, Feb 13, Feb 23, Mar 16, April 6)-- 15%
1 final project due exam week (along with 2 status reports March 18 and April 8) -- 25%
a lot of class participation -- 10%

I'll post homework here.

I'll post other stuff from the course here