Higher Descent on Pell Conics II. Two Centuries of Missed Opportunities
Franz Lemmermeyer
math.NTarXiv:math/0311296
Abstract
We discuss the history of attempts to solve the Pell equation using certain auxiliary equations that correspond, in modern terminology, to a second 2-descent.
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