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This Bitcoin Encryption Comes from Renaissance Art and Math

Last updated: April 28, 2025 3:48 pm
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The story of how Renaissance art led to the mathematics behind modern cryptography is a fascinating journey that spans centuries and continents. It all started with Filippo Brunelleschi, a sculptor-turned-architect who amazed bystanders in Florence, Italy, by demonstrating the laws of perspective through a painting apparatus he set up near the cathedral he would later design.

Brunelleschi’s demonstration of perspective paved the way for mathematical discoveries that would eventually lead to elliptic curve cryptography, the security scheme that underpins Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The connection between art and mathematics was further explored by French mathematician Girard Desargues in the 17th century, who introduced the concept of points and lines at infinity to Euclidean geometry.

Despite Desargues’s obscurity, his work laid the groundwork for projective geometry, which was later developed by French mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet in the 19th century. Poncelet’s comprehensive work on projective geometry was born out of his experiences as a prisoner of war during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, highlighting the resilience and creativity of the human spirit in challenging circumstances.

Meanwhile, Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel and French mathematician Évariste Galois made significant contributions to the study of elliptic integrals and group theory, respectively. It was German mathematician August Möbius who figured out how to merge projective geometry with the Cartesian coordinate system, leading to the development of elliptic curve cryptography.

In the early 20th century, French mathematician Henri Poincaré discovered that points with rational coordinates on the graph of an elliptic curve form a group, laying the foundation for the use of elliptic curves in cryptography. This culminated in the development of public-private key encryption systems based on elliptic curve groups by researchers like Victor S. Miller and Neal Koblitz in the 1980s.

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Elliptic curve cryptography offers stronger security and faster encryption compared to traditional methods like RSA encryption. Its adoption by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin has made it a popular encryption method, paving the way for more secure Internet communication in the future.

The journey from Renaissance art to modern cryptography is a testament to the interconnectedness of disciplines and the enduring impact of human creativity and innovation. As technology continues to evolve, the mathematics behind Renaissance perspective may play an increasingly important role in shaping the future of Internet encryption.

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