Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture...or a finite number of rational points, according to whether an associated function is equal to zero or not equal to zero, respectively. In the early 1960s in England, British mathematicians Bryan Birch and Peter Swinnerton-Dyer used the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) computer at the University of Cambridge to do numerical investigations of elliptic curves. Based...
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