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In 1922, Mordell proved a conjecture of Poincaré that the group of rational points on an elliptic curve is finitely generated. The reader can profitably look at the exposition in his book [Mo]. In 1929–1930, Weil extended this to abelian varieties [We 1].
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Lang, S. (1978). Heights. In: Elliptic Curves. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07010-9_4
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