Today I gave my third talk in the VIG (Very Informal Group) series about Shioda's paper on #Weierstrass Transformations and #Cubic #Surfaces (1994). There are some lovely results in this paper.

En #mathématiques , une #courbe d'Edwards est une courbe #elliptique #découverte par le #mathématicien Harold Edwards. Les courbes d'Edwards, et en particulier leurs variantes dites tordues, font partie des courbes utilisées pour la #cryptographie sur les #courbeselliptiques .

Bernstein et Lange ont mentionné plusieurs avantages de ces courbes comparativement aux fonctions elliptiques de #Weierstrass .

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courbe_d%27Edwards

@apocheir I remember trying to find the actual letter the whoever "Madame Schabelskoy" was, but I was unsuccessful. I am pretty sure it's originally due to #Weierstrass and #Kovalevskaya paraphrased it.

Math’s Beautiful Monsters
http://nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/maths-beautiful-monsters-rp

Nice short article about mathematical objects deemed pathological at first but that turn out to be extremely fruitful.

#maths #history #Weierstrass