Timeline for When did people start thinking of elliptic curves as groups?
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 13:26 | comment | added | Watson | Juel's paper (especially §2, p. 77) can be found here: He explicitely writes the associativity formula. On p. 78, he writes "Alle die betrachten Punkte bilden also unter Zugrundelegung der Addition eine Gruppe deren Punkten [...] geordnet sind.". | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 21:19 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Actually, I read recently that Poincaré didn't call abelian groups "groups", only non-abelian groups. So even if he knew the rational points formed a group, he wouldn't have said it in so many words. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 18:26 | vote | accept | Kimball | ||
| Mar 29, 2018 at 16:24 | history | answered | Franz Lemmermeyer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |