Provides the basic knowledge of elliptic modular forms necessary to understand the developments in number theory. This book includes general theory of modular g... » 

Provides the basic knowledge of elliptic modular forms necessary to understand the developments in number theory. This book includes general theory of modular groups, Hecke operators, the unit groups of quaternion algebras, and more. Eisenstein series with parameter are discussed following the work of Shimura: Eisenstein series. «