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Archive of posts filed under the Algebra category.

First Year Presentation

Slides and Report from my first year presentation on the point counting problem.

Mathematical tourism

In search of the quarternions.

A less very, very stupid way of counting points on elliptic curves

Sidestepping brute-force determination of the number of points over a finite field by construction of zeta functions.

Small defect types in Maple

Maple procedures for finding polynomials of a given trace and degree; hence for establishing the possible types of zeta function for small defect.

The Torsion subgroup of an Elliptic Curve

Yet more Maple code, this time for finding/classifying torsion points of an elliptic curve.

Implementing the Group Law Algorithm in Maple- finite fields

Extension of Maple code to finite fields.

Implementing the Group Law Algorithm in Maple- Examples

Sample problems from Silverman on the Elliptic curve group law.

Implementing the Group Law Algorithm in Maple- Code

Maple procedures for group law computation on Elliptic curves.

Lecture notes- Galois Theory

Notes from MA40037 Galois Theory, as pdf.

Moments of the Riemann Zeta function

Follow up of some ideas from Nina Snaith’s talk to the undergraduate maths club.