Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 24 3 e Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
For every prime , the elliptic-curve discriminant is a unit modulo , giving good reduction. Hasse's theorem on elliptic curves givesEquivalently, the elliptic-curve point count over a finite field lies between and , including for .