Birational Geometry for Number Theorists
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When thinking about the course “birational geometry for number theorists” I so näıvely agreed to give at the Göttingen summer school, I could not avoid imagining the spirit of the late Serge Lang, not so quietly beseeching one to do things right, keeping the theorems functorial with respect to ideas, and definitions natural. But most important is the fundamental tenet of Diophantine geometry, for which Lang was one of the strongest and loudest advocates, which was so aptly summarized in the introduction of Hindry-Silverman [24]:
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