Elliptic Curves and Poncelet's Porism -- Darren Glass, February 19, 2003

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Elliptic Curves have great interest to mathematicians for a variety 
of reasons, ranging from cryptography to the proof of Fermat's Last 
Theorem. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of elliptic curves, talk 
about some of their properties, and then show a modern proof of 
Poncelet's Porism which uses Elliptic Curves in a surprising way.