January 2007
Beginner
544 pages
14h 21m
English
BEFORE MICROSOFT AND DELL enlarged our computational horizons, mathematicians explored the mysteries of numbers. The publication in 1978 of the RSA algorithm, whose strength appears to depend on infeasibility factoring very large numbers, stimulated research in number theory. This chapter describes the dual number theoretic issues of factorization and primality testing.
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