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SUMMARY:The oldest problem - John Coates (University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:The congruent number problem is the oldest unsolved major prob
 lem in number theory\, with its written history going back over 1000 years
 . It has played a pivotal role in the evolution of diophantine geometry. I
 n particular\, it led Fermat to conjecture his "last theorem"\, and it als
 o contains the first striking\, and still unproven\, example of the conjec
 ture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. My lecture will recall the history\, an
 d discuss some recent work on the problem.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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