Episode 43 - Matilde Lalin
from My Favorite Theorem Hosted by Kevin Knudson
Number theorist Matilde Lalin introduces us to the Congruent Number Problem: which integers can occur as the area of a right triangle with rational sides? This turns out to have deep connections to elliptic curves and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectures and other cool stuff.
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