Solving Cubic Equations

Current Topics Seminar

Speaker	William Stein
Title	Solving Cubic Equations
Date	November 17, 4:30pm PDL C-36

I will talk about the problem of finding all rational solutions to cubic equations such as y^2 + y = x^3 - x. Buzzwords: elliptic curves, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, L-functions, Sage (computation).