As the great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss put it in a letter from 1831, infinity was nothing more than a “façon de parler” — a figure of speech.
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a special case of Hasse’s theorem, due to Gauss, which de-scribes the number of points on an elliptic curve defined over a finite field.
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