In this wide-ranging meditation on learning and difference, Michel Serres explores numerous pathways in philosophy, science, and literature to argue that the best contemporary education requires knowledge of both science’s…

Basic techniques in Diophantine geometry are covered, such as heights, the Mordell-Weil theorem, Siegel’s and Baker’s theorems, Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem, and the large sieve. Included are applications to, for example…