Higher Descent on Pell Conics I. From Legendre to Selmer

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2003-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/math/0311309v1

Mathematics

Number Theory

19 pages, 2 figures

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This article deals with the history of certain aspects of the Pell equation
X$^2$ - D y$^2$ = 4. We briefly discuss explicit units, and then study the
history of Legendre's equations ax$^2$ - b y$^2$ = 4 with ab=D.

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