Download or read book Elliptic Functions and Elliptic Integrals written by Viktor Vasil_evich Prasolov and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1997-09-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the geometry and arithmetic of elliptic curves and to elliptic functions with applications to algebra and number theory. It includes modern interpretations of some famous classical algebraic theorems such as Abel's theorem on the lemniscate and Hermite's solution of the fifth degree equation by means of theta functions. Suitable as a text, the book is self-contained and assumes as prerequisites only the standard one-year courses of algebra and analysis.