Tag Archives: John Cremona

The future is now; recap from Cetraro

I’ve just returned from the second Journal of Number Theory biennial conference in Italy. It’s always nice to get a chance to see slices of number theory one wouldn’t otherwise see at the conferences I usually go to (although this … Continue reading

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Mazur’s Program B on Abelian Surfaces

In the book “More mathematical people,” there is an interview with Robin Wilson with the following quote: At the meal I found myself sitting next to Alistair Cooke who was very charming, and absolutely fascinating to listen to. The very … Continue reading

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The paramodular conjecture is false for trivial reasons

(This is part of a series of occasional posts discussing results and observations in my joint paper with Boxer, Gee, and Pilloni mentioned here.) Brumer and Kramer made a conjecture positing a bijection between isogeny classes of abelian surfaces \(A/\mathbf{Q}\) … Continue reading

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