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How does any of this math get used? http://www.lmfdb.org/Genus2Curve/Q/11664/a/11664/1 http://www.lmfdb.org/Genus2Curve/Q/11664/a/11664/1

• 64738 9y ago
  I'd like to know, too. Not intending to sound irreverent, but does any of that math matter? (I'm not rude, I'm ignorant:)
  • Game_Ender 9y ago
    There is always the existential "Does anything really matter, everybody dies in the end?". This could have direct application, or as with many math concepts, in 50-100 years we could find an application for it. Despite all of that it doesn't have to matter, the process of exploration can have value in and of itself.
• onuralp 9y ago
  I think it has to do with public key cryptography - in particular, elliptic curve cryptography[0], which was mentioned by Schneider to be one of the key topics on NSA's agenda[1]. [0] https://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/ https://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-t... [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/why_is_the_nsa_.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/why_is_the_ns...
• mathgenius 9y ago
  "The LMFDB makes visible the connections predicted by the Langlands program. " The Langlands program is mathematicians version of "string theory". And what this guy is doing with google cloud is comparable to the LHC: searching for new particles (of mathematics) in order to find the deeper unity therein.