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The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

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Scicomm Science 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

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 w…