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How to generalize or prove the following on class numbers of quadratic fields.

  1. Let $n$ be a positive integer then $h(-4n) = 1$ if and only if $n = 1, 2, 3, 4$ or $7$.
  2. If $D$ is Gauss discriminant then for $D = b^2 - 4ac < -7$ is true.
  3. The Diophantine equation $2x(x^3 + 1) = y^2$ has only solutions in integers are $(0, 0)$, $(-1,0)$, $(1, 2)$, $(1, -2)$, $(2, 6)$ and $(2, -6)$. How to conclude that, there is no solutions of this equation except these I listed now.

Thanking you.

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What have you tried so far? Where are you stuck? Please show at least some effort. – John Wordsworth Dec 15 '12 at 9:02
I think that these are the diophantine equations that show up in many solutions of the class number 1 problem (heegner, stark). – franz lemmermeyer Dec 15 '12 at 11:07

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