Number theory in science and communication : with applications in cryptography, physics, digital information, computing, and self-similarity /
Number Theory in Science and Communication is an introduction for non-mathematicians. The book stresses intuitive understanding rather than abstract theory and highlights important concepts such as continued fractions, the golden ratio, quadratic residues and Chinese remainders, trapdoor functions,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[1997]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Springer series in information sciences ;
7. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Number Theory in Science and Communication is an introduction for non-mathematicians. The book stresses intuitive understanding rather than abstract theory and highlights important concepts such as continued fractions, the golden ratio, quadratic residues and Chinese remainders, trapdoor functions, pseudoprimes and primituve elements. Their applications to problems in the real world is one of the main themes of the book. This third edition is augmented by recent advances in primes in progressions, twin primes, prime triplets, prime quadruplets and quintruplets, factoring with elliptic curves, quantum factoring, Golomb rulers and "baroque" integers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 362 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-349) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783662034309 (electronic bk.) 3662034301 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0720-678X ; |