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by kens
2113 days ago
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One detailed discussion of elliptic curves with lots of history is: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2... To answer your specific question: "Elliptic curves
have almost nothing to do with ellipses at all. Why then are they called elliptic curves?
The answer lies in the word almost. There is a connection between ellipses and
elliptic curves, but it’s not at all obvious and is the result of a connected but distinctly
nonlinear sequence of mathematical events." |
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