Saturday, December 1, 2012

16.4, due on December 3

1. (Difficult): What does an elliptic curve mod 2 look like? How does it relate to the graph of our other elliptic curves we've dealt with? (How did we know the intersection P=(0,1) on page 361?)

I didn't quite follow the new law of addition. How does it work?

Also, I think I understand the last example of addition in GF(4), but a picture would be really helpful so I know if I'm getting it our not.

2. (Reflection): It is crazy how math builds on each other. Elliptic curves mod 2 seem like such a crazy idea, but it's just a bunch of simple math concepts combined.

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