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Mathematics in Cybersecurity
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Mathematics in Cybersecurity

by Alfred Basta, Stephan Delong, Stavros Basta
March 2026
Intermediate
512 pages
14h 19m
English
Wiley
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Index

a

  • Absorption laws  29
  • Addition rule  349
  • Adjacency list  390, 409–411
  • Adjacency matrix  387–390, 397, 408–411
  • Adjacent vertices  382, 385–386
  • Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)  88, 446
  • Advanced mathematical concepts in security  88, 446
  • AES encryption  88
  • Algorithm efficiency  404, 443
  • Algorithms  18, 161, 195, 204, 259–291, 295, 378, 380, 398, 399, 410, 419, 420, 422, 426, 432–444, 462, 470, 472
  • Alice and Bob examples  384, 395, 471
  • Angle measurement  207, 208, 210, 211
  • Anomaly detection  291
  • Applications in biology  381
  • Applications in chemistry  381
  • Applications in cybersecurity  196, 257, 289–291
  • Applications of complex numbers  256–257
  • Applications of cryptography  467–469
  • Applications of exponential functions  264–270
  • Applications of Fibonacci  196
  • Applications of graph theory  380–381
  • Applications of logic  43–49
  • Applications of number systems  85–89
  • Argument  30, 251–254, 289, 307
  • Aristotle  1
  • Arithmetic in other number systems  89–95
  • Arithmetic operations  63
  • Arithmetic sequences  181–188
  • Artificial intelligence  46–47
  • ASCII  88, 462
  • Associative laws  27–28
  • Asymmetric cryptography  447–448
  • Augmented matrix  167–168
  • Authentication  88, 445, 466–468
  • Authentication protocols  88
  • Axioms of probability  347–348

b

  • Balanced ternary  82–84
  • Bar graph  297–299
  • Base-n systems  84
  • Bernoulli distribution  357
  • Biconditional  18, 20–22, 49
  • Binary addition  56–57
  • Binary arithmetic  56–61
  • Binary data representation  87
  • Binary division  59–61
  • Binary multiplication  59
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