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Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

The 'Code-Breaking' series from TRM intern Georgie Bumpus concludes with 'Elliptic Curve Cryptography'. Used in iMessage, Google Chrome, @Bitcoin, and by the US government to secure your data online. Find out how it all works here: https://t.co/BB0J2mZVDX
— Dr Tom Crawford (@tomrocksmaths) April 20, 2021

Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before

Before the 18th century it was common to use vincula (straight lines drawn above the operations) to indicate order of operations instead of parentheses.

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

Before the 18th century it was common to use vincula (straight lines drawn above the operations) to indicate order of operations instead of parentheses. pic.twitter.com/GcdK4igaZA
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) April 18, 2021

The Pigeon Hole Principle: 7 gorgeous proofs

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

In our collection of almost integers here is another cool one involving e and π

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

In our collection of almost integers here is another cool one involving e and π pic.twitter.com/bZe1EAz2il
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) April 15, 2021

The Heat Method for Distance Computation

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

Just added some new python bindings for fast computation of geodesic paths! Input is two vertices, output is a geodesic polyline on the surface.

This uses the new edge flip geodesic algorithm from our siggraph asia paper (w/ @keenanisalive).

docs: https://t.co/TkBwCEdCbS pic.twitter.com/fa6IODSLMy
— Nick Sharp (@nmwsharp) April 9, 2021

Riemann wrote 1 paper on number theory. He wrote it at the suggestion of Gauss, who thought he could do something meaningful in the domain

Posted on 2021/04/11 by Carl Robitaille

Riemann wrote 1 paper on number theory. He wrote it at the suggestion of Gauss, who thought he could do something meaningful in the domain. pic.twitter.com/ln0M4U58f7
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) April 11, 2021

Was Erdős on drugs ?

Posted on 2021/04/11 by Carl Robitaille

The Manga Guide to Physics is actually NOT that Bad…

Posted on 2021/04/11 by Carl Robitaille

Me peeling potatoes vs my mum peeling potatoes

Posted on 2021/04/11 by Carl Robitaille

This is a mathematics joke involving potatoes and calculus. https://t.co/pm3hzjAaik pic.twitter.com/UxqQc6tVYl
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) April 8, 2021