Suppose someone understands 0% of that. What would I type into DDG or Wikipedia to start?
Like, ecliptic curves are part of libsoduim/nacl - does it mean something "big"?
Like, ecliptic curves are part of libsoduim/nacl - does it mean something "big"?
They are excellent, and not requiring more than high school maths knowledge to really get quite deep into the mysterious connections between prime numbers, Riemann hypothesis, elliptic curves and L-Functions.
However, while it does not require more knowledge than high school math, it does require more maturity and certainly lots of patience.
This will lead you deeper into study of abstract algebra concepts like groups and rings. If you haven't done much set theory you will probably go deep on that and develop an opinion on the Axiom of Choice.
Then you'll probably surface a bit to look at elliptic curves and consider their many applications in abstract and concrete topics like cryptography and the elusive proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
By then you'll have caught up to me. In the meantime I'll be reading up on module forms and L-functions.