<i>...such a talk can easily succeed in convincing the audience that there is a dry, ridiculous, but famous conjecture coming out of nothing; crazy number theorists have wasted their life to contribute to the list of partial results, which cannot even be claimed to be a long list.<p>Hopefully I have failed in that way.</i><p>Ummm, I guess that even among techies on HN, there are only a small fraction who could understand this. So the author failed with me. Any one want to do an ELI5?
This is quite advanced. At least graduate math level.<p>This is supposed to be a "elementary introduction to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture". Ha.