Exploring “The Language of Mathematics” to discover how primes are used in cryptosystems. It’s another prompt post today… Something I read/learned this summer that intrigued me… Although most of the books I’ve read this summer have been decidedly un-mathematical (for some reason, I’ve started reading history books about the War of the Roses), I did manage …
An intriguing use of primes Read More »
I’m currently a few chapters into Tony Crilly’s book “How Big is Infinity”; I picked this up during a shopping trip on Easter Saturday, following an instruction from a shopping buddy that we should all “treat ourselves to something lovely” – I think she had smellies or clothes in mind; she seemed quite nonplussed that my …
How Big is Infinity (or how I learned to stop worrying and love set theory) Read More »
It arrived! Having ordered a copy of Alex Bellos’s second book, Alex Through the Looking Glass right after discovering it existed a few days ago, the gods at Amazon finally decided to deposit it on my doormat this afternoon. I nearly crushed it when I opened the door… So after hacking into it with an over-large knife …
Through the looking glass Read More »