Soft math - Revision history

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	'''Cryptography is a martial art''' which cannot be practiced properly without the discipline of simple rigorous definitions and hard, step-by-step proofs, and accordingly all mathematical concepts which are employed in the service of [[strong cryptography]] must be brought into the jurisdiction of the martial arts as such.		'''Cryptography is a martial art''' which cannot be practiced properly without the discipline of simple rigorous definitions and hard, step-by-step proofs, and accordingly all mathematical concepts which are employed in the service of [[strong cryptography]] must be brought into the jurisdiction of the martial arts as such.

	Our goals and objectives here are to overcome heavy resistance, espionage and well-armed campaigns of disinformation from entrenched insiders of the “soft math” camps in order to simplify and strengthen the definitions and make the theorems more rigorous and provable for engineering applications outside a peculiar academic sub-discipline of advanced algebraic group theory which has “gone soft,” so that we can better understand from an outsider perspective the group structure of elliptic curves over finite fields ~~from~~ a point of view of establishing and maintaining provable security properties for cryptographic applications.		Our goals and objectives here are to overcome heavy resistance, espionage and well-armed campaigns of disinformation from entrenched insiders of the “soft math” camps in order to simplify and strengthen the definitions and make the theorems more rigorous and provable for engineering applications outside a peculiar academic sub-discipline of advanced algebraic group theory which has “gone soft,” so that we can better understand from an outsider perspective the group structure of elliptic curves over finite fields with a point of view of establishing and maintaining provable security properties for cryptographic applications.

Rational Point: entrenched academia

2025-01-05T17:30:34Z

entrenched academia

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			== Soft Math ==

	'''Soft math''' is characterized by the use of mathematics-oriented computer '''software''', and has been used to collect heuristic or statistical evidence for may conjectures such as the [[Riemann hypothesis]] and the [[Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture]].		'''Soft math''' is characterized by the use of mathematics-oriented computer '''software''', and has been used to collect heuristic or statistical evidence for may conjectures such as the [[Riemann hypothesis]] and the [[Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture]].

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	Much of the “soft math“ we are presented with in abstract algebra or group theory journal articles and so forth has become too abstract, advanced and theoretical with vague definitions leaving behind the formal proofs for the initial simplest concrete results upon which it is based. This is what happened at the [[monstrous moonshine]] camp.		Much of the “soft math“ we are presented with in abstract algebra or group theory journal articles and so forth has become too abstract, advanced and theoretical with vague definitions leaving behind the formal proofs for the initial simplest concrete results upon which it is based. This is what happened at the [[monstrous moonshine]] camp.

	'''Cryptography is a martial art''' which cannot be practiced properly without the discipline of simple rigorous definitions and hard, step-by-step proofs, and accordingly all mathematical concepts which are employed in the service of [[strong cryptography]] must be brought into the jurisdiction of the martial ~~art~~ as such.		=== General recommendations to mitigate ===

			'''Cryptography is a martial art''' which cannot be practiced properly without the discipline of simple rigorous definitions and hard, step-by-step proofs, and accordingly all mathematical concepts which are employed in the service of [[strong cryptography]] must be brought into the jurisdiction of the martial arts as such.

			Our goals and objectives here are to overcome heavy resistance, espionage and well-armed campaigns of disinformation from entrenched insiders of the “soft math” camps in order to simplify and strengthen the definitions and make the theorems more rigorous and provable for engineering applications outside a peculiar academic sub-discipline of advanced algebraic group theory which has “gone soft,” so that we can better understand from an outsider perspective the group structure of elliptic curves over finite fields from a point of view of establishing and maintaining provable security properties for cryptographic applications.

Rational Point: jurisdiction of the martial art

2025-01-05T14:00:12Z

jurisdiction of the martial art

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	In some ways it may be seen as “applied” rather than pure mathematics which would be based on formal definitions and proofs for all key terms and theorems based on them, even if it isn’t “applied” as such to practical use “out on the farm” as it were.		In some ways it may be seen as “applied” rather than pure mathematics which would be based on formal definitions and proofs for all key terms and theorems based on them, even if it isn’t “applied” as such to practical use “out on the farm” as it were.

	Much of the “soft math“ we are presented with in abstract algebra or group theory journal articles and so forth has become too abstract, advanced and theoretical with vague definitions leaving behind the formal proofs for the initial simplest concrete results upon which it is based.		Much of the “soft math“ we are presented with in abstract algebra or group theory journal articles and so forth has become too abstract, advanced and theoretical with vague definitions leaving behind the formal proofs for the initial simplest concrete results upon which it is based. This is what happened at the [[monstrous moonshine]] camp.

			'''Cryptography is a martial art''' which cannot be practiced properly without the discipline of simple rigorous definitions and hard, step-by-step proofs, and accordingly all mathematical concepts which are employed in the service of [[strong cryptography]] must be brought into the jurisdiction of the martial art as such.

Rational Point: soft math defined

2025-01-05T09:21:31Z

soft math defined

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'''Soft math''' is characterized by the use of mathematics-oriented computer '''software''', and has been used to collect heuristic or statistical evidence for may conjectures such as the [[Riemann hypothesis]] and the [[Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture]].

In some ways it may be seen as “applied” rather than pure mathematics which would be based on formal definitions and proofs for all key terms and theorems based on them, even if it isn’t “applied” as such to practical use “out on the farm” as it were.

Much of the “soft math“ we are presented with in abstract algebra or group theory journal articles and so forth has become too abstract, advanced and theoretical with vague definitions leaving behind the formal proofs for the initial simplest concrete results upon which it is based.