At a prime of ordinary reduction, the Iwasawa "main conjecture" for elliptic curves relates a Selmer group to a p-adic L-function. In the supersingular case, the statement of the main conjecture is ...

Author Nick Sullivan worked for six years at Apple on many of its most important cryptography efforts before recently joining CloudFlare, where he is a systems engineer. He has a degree in mathematics ...

Many complicated advances in research mathematics are spurred by a desire to understand some of the simplest questions about numbers. How are prime numbers distributed in the integers? Are there ...