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Number theory in science and communication : with applications in cryptography, physics, digital information, computing, and self-similarity

Serves as an introduction for non-mathematicians to the useful branch of applied mathematics. This fourth edition stresses on intuitive understanding rather than abstract theory, and highlights concepts such as continued fractions, the golden ratio, quadratic residues and Chinese remainders, trapdoor functions, pseudoprimes and primitive elements

Print Book, English, ©2006
Springer, Berlin, ©2006