Kepler: so, you see, the orbit of a planet is elliptical. To find where the Earth is, we need a method to calculate the arc length of an ellipse. Newton: This is a fluent problem, and, as usual, it can be solved with an infinite series expansion. Leibniz
A history of elliptic curves in tweets
A history of elliptic curves in tweets
A history of elliptic curves in tweets
Kepler: so, you see, the orbit of a planet is elliptical. To find where the Earth is, we need a method to calculate the arc length of an ellipse. Newton: This is a fluent problem, and, as usual, it can be solved with an infinite series expansion. Leibniz