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Mathematics for Pleasure of a Beginner
I've just read "The Music of the Primes" by Marcus du Sautoy, it is worth a read. I'm not from a maths background, but I'd like to develop a deeper understanding of the concepts. The poetry of math is ...
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History of elliptic curves
In one sense elliptic curves are a rather modern object as some of its properties have been studied only in the last century or so. But in another sense there are a very classical object for studying ...
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Group Law for an Elliptic curve
I was reading this book "Rational points on Elliptic curves" by J.Silverman, and J.Tate, 2 prominent figures in Number theory and was very intrigued after reading the first couple of pages.
The ...
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A question on FLT and Taniyama Shimura
Sometime back i watched the documentary of Andrew Wiles proving the Fermat's Last theorem. A truly inspiring video and i still watch it whenever i am in a depressed mood. There are certain ...
