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?
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?
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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_and_Swinnerton-Dyer_conj...