A history of elliptic curves in tweets
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A history of elliptic curves in tweets
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#2This is cute, but I would much rather see this history written out as a serious non-tweety article. There is a ton of fascinating and useful information hiding underneath the humor.
Re: A history of elliptic curves in tweets
#3This is cute, but I would much rather see this history written out as a serious non-tweety article. There is a ton of fascinating and useful information hiding underneath the humor.
Go and read a maths textbook then?
I'm not being facetious, some books are much less Theorem Lemma Proof (and nothing else) than others.
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#4I’m not a bernsteintheist, but I must be a little bit of one after all, because I was like “hey, he went to a lot of work to show he had nothing up his sleeve..”
Lisper here says that he wished for a serious writeup, I agree — right now this is a set of in-jokes; it would make a fantastic Quanta Magazine article, or two, or n..
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#5Utterly brilliant!
A great mathematical mind -- meets a great ability to summarize the works of previous mathematicians (not easy to do!)!
Worth re-reading in the future!
Re: A history of elliptic curves in tweets
#6This is cute, but I would much rather see this history written out as a serious non-tweety article. There is a ton of fascinating and useful information hiding underneath the humor.
If you really want to know, you could cover most of it with [1,2].
[1] https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
[2] https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
Re: A history of elliptic curves in tweets
#7This is cute, but I would much rather see this history written out as a serious non-tweety article. There is a ton of fascinating and useful information hiding underneath the humor.
Go and read a maths textbook then? I'm not being facetious, some books are much less Theorem Lemma Proof (and nothing else) than others.
You may not be facetious, but you are being condescending by implying that I have never read a math textbook, or that I have made no attempt to find this information. In fact, I have read fairly extensively about elliptic curves and I have never seen any source that describes the history. To the contrary, many sources say that elliptic curves have nothing to do with ellipses, but this series of tweets seems to imply that this isn't true. So if you want to point me to an actual source, that would be much appreciated. But all you have to say is RTFM then my response is STFU.
Re: A history of elliptic curves in tweets
#8This is cute, but I would much rather see this history written out as a serious non-tweety article. There is a ton of fascinating and useful information hiding underneath the humor.
If you really want to know, you could cover most of it with [1,2]. [1] https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2... [2] https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
Thanks!
Re: A history of elliptic curves in tweets
#9> NSA: Use our curves. They were selected randomly. Promise, wink wink.
Here's a better explanation about this cryptic tweet:
Backdoors in NIST elliptic curves
Of particular concern are the NIST standard elliptic curves. There is a concern that these were some-how “cooked” to facilitate an NSA backdoor into elliptic curve cryptography. The suspicion is that while the vast majority of elliptic curves are secure, these ones were deliberately chosen as having a mathematical weakness known only to the NSA.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go and read a maths textbook then? I'm not being facetious, some books are much less Theorem Lemma Proof (and nothing else) than others.
You may not be facetious, but you are being condescending by implying that I have never read a math textbook, or that I have made no attempt to find this information. In fact, I have read fairly extensively about elliptic curves and I have never seen any source that describes the history. To the contrary, many sources say that elliptic curves have nothing to do with ellipses, but this series of tweets seems to imply…
I think you are over-reacting. I didn't read mhh__'s comment as directed at you specifically. It's more of "When in want of X, go read a book on X".