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I kinda know it(thanks to Wikipedia), but I'd like to know if there's a (text)book that would explain it to me. ADDED: I'd rather prefer to see the theory of modular forms developed from the more abstract point of view. I mean, I'm working them already from the elementary textbook of Apostol, after skipping through Koblitz's book and a chapter in Serre's "Arithmetics," but I would like to get more motivation as to how they are connected with more general, hardcore stuff. By this point of time, I have kinda satisfied my initial desire to learn about curves that are also tori(OMG! how can a curve be also a torus?)

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    In general, I would say that the community prefers for the text of the question to be completely self-contained. Would you mind editing your question so that reading the body allows us to understand the entire question, rather than having us infer from the title?2011-08-08
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    I recall the first chapter of Silverman's _[Advanced Topics...](http://books.google.com/books/about/Advanced_topics_in_the_arithmetic_of_ell.html?id=dnZ0Vdo-7BsC)_ being a very good introduction to this.2011-08-08
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    Textbooks aside, a good starting point is also provided by the famous survey paper by Diamond and Im and also by Milne's online notes.2011-08-08

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