Université de Bordeaux, Fall 2013, lectures by Yuri Bilu, TeXed by Alexey Beshenov.
The notes cover three different results:
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Hasse–Minkowski theorem (local-global principle for quadratic forms),
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Skolem–Mahler–Lech theorem about linear recurrences,
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Sprindžuk’s irreducibility theorem.
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