Published Sources on the History of the Modularity Conjecture


                                               David Goss
                                               Department of Mathematics
                                               Ohio State University


       The following sources have been pointed out as being of
       interest with regard to the history of the modularity
       conjecture for elliptic curves. These articles are presented as
       resources and *no* value judgment what-so-ever is being made on
       them.


   Shimura, G. Yutaka Taniyama and his time. Very personal recollections, 
        {\it Bull. Lon. Math. Soc.} 21 (1989), 186--196.

   Taniyama's problems are in: {\it S\^ugaku} 7, (1956), p. 269 (in
	Japanese).

   Weil, A. \"Uber die Bestimmung Dirichletscher Reihen durch
	Funktionalgleichungen, {\it Math. Ann.} 168, (1967), 149--157,
	({\it Collected Works:} (1967a) with commentary).

   Zarkhin, Yu. & Parshin, A. Finiteness Problems in Diophantine
	Geometry, {\it Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. (2)} 143, (1989), 
        35--102, (especially Note by S. Lang)"