Discrete Algebraic Methods

Footnotes

1	By flip–flop we mean the three element monoid U2 = {1, a, b} with xy = y for y ≠ 1.
2	Historical sources do not entirely agree on the exact form.
3	The Vernam one-time pad was used on the red telephone which connected the White House to the Kremlin during the Cold War.
4	This scenario was taken from the lecture notes of a course taught by Holger Petersen at the University of Stuttgart in Summer Semester 2007.
5	The Gödel Prize is awarded annually for the best work in the field of theoretical computer science, published in the last 13 years.
6	According to Jacques Monod’s (1910–1976) book Le hasard et la nécessité. Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie moderne from 1970.
7	In the context of monoids, we use the symbol 1 for the ...