"The conjecture discovered jointly by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Bryan Birch in the early 1960s both surprised the mathematical world, and also forcefully reminded mathematicians that computations remained as important as ever in uncovering new mysteries in the ancient discipline of number theory. Although there has been some progress on their conjecture, it remains today largely unproven, and is unquestionably one of the central open problems of number theory. It also has a different flavour from most other number-theoretic conjectures in that it involves exact formulae, rather than inequalities or asymptotic questions."
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