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This course is a computationally focused introduction to elliptic curves, with applications to number theory and cryptography. While this is an introductory course, we will (gently) work our way up to some fairly advanced material, including an overview of the proof of Fermat’s last theorem.
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A visualization of the Modularity theorem, which states that elliptic curves (left) and modular forms (right) are related via their L-functions (center). (Image courtesy of Dr. Andrew Sutherland.)
