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Current research?
Interesting problems?
Anything cool on the Arxiv?

Daily reminder that elliptic curves are _the_ best mathematical objects.
>great for cryptography (allegedly even good for post-quantum cryptography)
>helped solve Fermat's Last Theorem
>they're the only genus of curves whose rational points are hard to count
>million dollar prize for connecting their zeta function to their rank over [math] \mathbb{Q} [/math]
>turn into donuts over [math] \mathbb{C} [/math]