This book introduces the theory of modular forms with an eye toward the Modularity Theorem:All rational elliptic curves arise from modular forms.
The topics covered include
• elliptic curves as complex tori and as algebraic curves,
• modular curves as Riemann surfaces and as algebraic curves,
• Hecke operators and Atkin–Lehner theory,
• Hecke eigenforms and their arithmetic properties,
• the Jacobians of modular curves and the Abelian varieties associated to Hecke eigenforms,
• elliptic and modular curves modulo p and the Eichler–Shimura Relation,
• the Galois representations associated to elliptic curves and to Hecke eigenforms.
