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| | Continuing the theme of alternative approaches to teaching calculus, I take the liberty of posting a letter sent by Donald Knuth to to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in March, 1998 (TeX file). Professor Anthony W. Knapp P O Box 333 East Setauket, NY 11733 Dear editor, I am pleased to see so...
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| | For those who aren't regular readers: as a followup to this post, there are four posts detailing the basic four methods of proof, with intentions to detail some more advanced proof techniques in the future. You can find them on this blog's primers page. Do you really want to get better at mathematics? Remember when you first learned how to program? I do. I spent two years experimenting with Java programs on my own in high school.
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| | Read on to find out how backlash from the mathematics community forced one German mathematician to pivot and study Shakespeare.
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| [AI summary] The text provides an in-depth explanation of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), covering fundamental concepts such as elliptic curves over finite fields, point addition, cyclic subgroups, subgroup orders, and the discrete logarithm problem. It also discusses practical aspects like finding base points, cofactors, and the importance of choosing subgroups with high order for cryptographic security. The text emphasizes that ECC relies on the difficulty of solving the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves, which is considered computationally hard and forms the basis for secure cryptographic protocols like ECDH and ECDSA.