The 1-2-3 of Modular Forms: Lectures at a Summer School in Nordfjordeid, Norway

by Jan Hendrik Bruinier, Gerard Van Der Geer, Günter Harder

This book grew out of three series of lectures given at the summer school on "Modular Forms and their Applications" at the Sophus Lie Conference Center in Nordfjordeid in June 2004. The first series treats the classical one-variable theory of elliptic modular forms. The second series presents the theory of Hilbert modular forms in two variables and Hilbert modular surfaces. The third series gives an introduction to Siegel modular forms and discusses a conjecture by Harder. It also contains Harder's original manuscript with the conjecture. Each part treats a number of beautiful applications.

Genres: Mathematics

276 pages, Paperback

First published February 29, 2008

Reviews

[Wissam Raji · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the nicest introduction to several topics in the theory of modular forms. Treatment of different topics ranging from classical modular forms of integer and half-integer weight to Hilbert modular forms and Siegel modular forms. The book is based on lecture series at a summer school in Norway. Very useful if one wants to get the feel of the basics of the theory in a brief introductory manner.

[Shayan Gholami · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is not very good for people wanting to learn modular forms for number theory applications.