In the early 1960s, B. Birch and H. P. F. Swinnerton-Dyer conjectured that if a given elliptic curve has an infinite
number of solutions, then the associated 
-series has value 0 at a certain fixed point. In 1976, Coates
and Wiles showed that elliptic curves with complex
multiplication having an infinite number of solutions have 
-series which are zero at the relevant fixed point (Coates-Wiles
theorem), but they were unable to prove the converse. V. Kolyvagin extended
this result to modular curves.
Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
See also
Coates-Wiles Theorem, Elliptic CurveExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Swinnerton-DyerConjecture.html