Elliptic Curve is supposed to be one of the most powerful weapons of modern mathematics. Basically Elliptic curve alongside Group theory has become the day to day language of a mathematicians of 20th and 21st century. The most notable use of Elliptic curves was done in Andrew Wiles proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Well, if you dont know Andrew Wiles you should not be calling yourself a Mathematics lover. Even in his effort to prove P!=NP (though unsuccessful) our very own Vinay Deolalikar’s tried to used elliptic cuves quite extensively.
It is that elliptic curve that are working with. We are trying to apply it in the field of Cryptography. But I feel we have failed to convince SKG sir with our procedings. Everyone asks “what new have you done?”. Actually we dont have anything new.Nor is it possible to have anything new so soon. If simply tampering of the problem in some way or the other is to be called a new thing then we should really be sorry. I have talked with students from IITs,ISIs,IIITs,MIT. Even they admit they don’t have mathematical depth to come up with new things as yet and we sitting here at IEM would invent new things every single day;what Mathematicians and Scientist are stuggling to find for thousands of year we will will do that within a flash. Is it a joke or what? If such was the case then all the theorems of text books would have been replaced by the names of IEMians instead of the Mathematician from the past.
Posted by mainak on November 26, 2010 at 12:44 pm
perfectly agreed. specially with “what new have you done?” story.