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Solving the world's hardest unsolved maths problems
- luxpir 12y agoContext: The universities of Nottingham and Oxford have been awarded the largest mathematics research grant ever awarded (£2.3m) to bring together a 'maths dreamteam' to work on the generalized Riemann Hypothesis and the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. I'm not a mathematician, but I understand the BSD conjecture is implicitly involved in EC crypto [0], although I'm not sure what practical effect it would have if proofs were found. Any math-ers out there able to give us a layman's briefing? -- [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_and_Swinnerton-Dyer_conjecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_and_Swinnerton-Dyer_conj...