Anyway: enough from me for now (I ought to be just sorting out the descriptions to my own videos I guess). "weird" doesn't even come close, Lywnis! Try "The Serpentine course on elliptic curves"... or searching Wikipedia or "The Number Theory Web" with "Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture" or "Hasse-Weil theorem" - the (proven) "Riemann Hypothesis" for elliptic curve L-functions. Keith Devlin's book "The Millenium Problems" is quite informative and readable to non-experts...
...when you KEEP IT REAL: The spooky bastards who have made a right mess of things with their farcical "privacy"/"surveillance" industry ...with their shitty mobile-phone "culture" (which uses Koblitz and Miller's Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem) ought to forget all about their WikiLeaks (and other horrid nonsense) and just KEEP IT REAL by watching our beautiful curvy videos instead!
... in particular having x and y being "numbers" in finite fields, or having x,y being rational numbers (forming a subgroup of the group of points on the real curve) ... or complex numbers (forming a bigger group). When John Conway says on the Fermat's Last Theorem documentary (search that - it keeps getting uploaded then removed by different people -it was screened as a BBC 'Horizon' program here in UK) that they are "not curves" that's what he means (cos of course they ARE curves...
OK - I uploaded mine a few months ago ( /watch?v=YTsIHPlMmmQ )... then just redisovered your's. The thing is with elliptic curves (which basically just means curves given by y^2=cubic in x) is that the number-theorists (and crypto-freaks -e.g. my juggling/maths buddy "singingbanana" who seems to have got the crypto-lecturer job in Cambridge UK as a result of roving around giving talks on Enigma) like to consider them as equations over different number systems...
Cool!
mphello 10 months ago
Anyway: enough from me for now (I ought to be just sorting out the descriptions to my own videos I guess). "weird" doesn't even come close, Lywnis! Try "The Serpentine course on elliptic curves"... or searching Wikipedia or "The Number Theory Web" with "Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture" or "Hasse-Weil theorem" - the (proven) "Riemann Hypothesis" for elliptic curve L-functions. Keith Devlin's book "The Millenium Problems" is quite informative and readable to non-experts...
ortega24024 10 months ago
...when you KEEP IT REAL: The spooky bastards who have made a right mess of things with their farcical "privacy"/"surveillance" industry ...with their shitty mobile-phone "culture" (which uses Koblitz and Miller's Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem) ought to forget all about their WikiLeaks (and other horrid nonsense) and just KEEP IT REAL by watching our beautiful curvy videos instead!
ortega24024 10 months ago
... in particular having x and y being "numbers" in finite fields, or having x,y being rational numbers (forming a subgroup of the group of points on the real curve) ... or complex numbers (forming a bigger group). When John Conway says on the Fermat's Last Theorem documentary (search that - it keeps getting uploaded then removed by different people -it was screened as a BBC 'Horizon' program here in UK) that they are "not curves" that's what he means (cos of course they ARE curves...
ortega24024 10 months ago
OK - I uploaded mine a few months ago ( /watch?v=YTsIHPlMmmQ )... then just redisovered your's. The thing is with elliptic curves (which basically just means curves given by y^2=cubic in x) is that the number-theorists (and crypto-freaks -e.g. my juggling/maths buddy "singingbanana" who seems to have got the crypto-lecturer job in Cambridge UK as a result of roving around giving talks on Enigma) like to consider them as equations over different number systems...
ortega24024 10 months ago
Dude, I did animations just like that years ago. Seeing this has reminded me to polish them up! Could do with some funky musc on 'em....
ortega24024 2 years ago 2
weird science :)
Lywnis 3 years ago