Having expressed the ratio of the length of the lemniscate of Bernoulli to the length of its cocentered superscribing circle as the reciprocal of the arithmetic-geometric mean of 1 and \( \sqrt{2} \), Gauss wrote in his diary, on May 30, 1799, that thereby “an entirely new field of analysis” emerged. Yet, up to these days, the study of elliptic functions (and curves) has been based on two traditional approaches (namely, that of Jacobi and that of Weiestrass), rather than a single unifying approach. Replacing artificial dichotomy by a methodologically justified single unifying approach not only enables rederiving classical results eloquently, but allows one to undertake new calculations, which seemed either unfeasible or too cumbersome to be explicitly performed. Here, we shall derive readily verifiable explicit formulas for carrying out highly efficient arithmetic on complex projective elliptic curves. We shall explicitly relate calculating the roots of the modular equation of level p to calculating the p-torsion points on a corresponding elliptic curve, and we shall rebring to light Galois’ exceptional, never really surpassable, and far from fully appreciated impact. Bibliography: 19 titles.
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Adlaj, S. Multiplication and Division on Elliptic Curves, Torsion Points, and Roots of Modular Equations. J Math Sci 251, 315–338 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-020-05093-5
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