A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography
Ranked #36 in Cryptography, Ranked #63 in Number Theory
. . . both Gauss and lesser mathematicians may be justified in rejoic- ing that there is one science [number theory] at any rate, and that their own, whose very remoteness from ordinary human activities should keep it gentle and clean. - G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology, 1940 G. H. Hardy would have been surprised and probably displeased with the increasing interest in number theory for application to "ordinary human activities" such as information transmission (error-correcting codes) and cryptography (secret codes). Less than a half-century after Hardy wrote the words quoted above, it... more
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