TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diamond, Fred
AU  - Shurman, Jerry
TI  - First course in modular forms
SN  - 9781441920058
U1  - 512.73 23rd
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer Science
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Modular Forms
N2  - This book introduces the theory of modular forms, from which all rational elliptic curves arise, with an eye toward the Modularity Theorem. Discussion covers elliptic curves as complex tori and as algebraic curves; modular curves as Riemann surfaces and as algebraic curves; Hecke operators and Atkin-Lehner theory; Hecke eigenforms and their arithmetic properties; the Jacobians of modular curves and the Abelian varieties associated to Hecke eigenforms. As it presents these ideas, the book states the Modularity Theorem in various forms, relating them to each other and touching on their applications to number theory. The authors assume no background in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Exercises are included.

Also includes List of symbols, index and references
ER  -