Hideaki Ikoma is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Shitennoji University. Shu Kawaguchi is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Doshisha University. He was awarded the Young Scientists' Prize by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2010. Atsushi Moriwaki is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University. He is the author of Arakelov Geometry (2014) and co-author of Arakelov Geometry over Adelic Curves (2020), and was awarded the Autumn Prize of the Mathematical society of Japan in 2001.

• 1. What is the Mordell conjecture?; 2. Some basics of algebraic number theory; 3. Theory of heights; 4. Preliminaries; 5. The proof of Falthing's theorem.

'This lucid compact book provides a short and direct access to Vojta-Bombieri's proof of Faltings's celebrated theorem. The text itself is mostly self-contained, with all needed results on diophantine geometry presented without unnecessary abstraction, in as concrete a manner as possible. Without doubt, this excellent course will become a standard for anyone wishing to be introduced to the topic of rational points on curves over the rational numbers, and to one of the crowning achievements of the mathematics of our time.' Vincent Maillot, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris