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The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Posted on February 11, 2026 by VM

On Monday night, I kid you not, I dreamt of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. It was only by name, a fleeting mention in a heated conversation I was having with a friend. I’m not sure who spoke it or … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm, Science | Tagged Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Bryan Birch, EDSAC 2, elliptic curve cryptography, elliptic curves, L-function, Millennium Prize, modular arithmetic, Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, prime numbers, rational numbers, Shafarevich-Tate group | Leave a comment

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The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

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