TY - BOOK ID - 56483852 TI - Number Theory in Science and Communication : With Applications in Cryptography, Physics, Digital Information, Computing, and Self-Similarity AU - Schroeder, Manfred R AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2006 SN - 9783540265986 PB - Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg DB - UniCat KW - Number theory KW - Ergodic theory. Information theory KW - Operational research. Game theory KW - Numerical analysis KW - Mathematical physics KW - Computer. Automation KW - coderen KW - cryptografie KW - stochastische analyse KW - wiskunde KW - algoritmen KW - fysica KW - kansrekening KW - getallenleer KW - numerieke analyse KW - informatietheorie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56483852 AB - "Number Theory in Science and Communication" is a well-known introduction for non-mathematicians to this fascinating and useful branch of applied mathematics . It stresses intuitive understanding rather than abstract theory and highlights important concepts such as continued fractions, the golden ratio, quadratic residues and Chinese remainders, trapdoor functions, pseudoprimes and primitive elements. Their applications to problems in the real world are one of the main themes of the book. This revised fourth edition is augmented by recent advances in primes in progressions, twin primes, prime triplets, prime quadruplets and quintruplets, factoring with elliptic curves, quantum factoring, Golomb rulers and "baroque" integers. From reviews of earlier editions - "I continue to find [Schroeder's] Number Theory a goldmine of valuable information. It is a marvellous book, in touch with the most recent applications of number theory and written with great clarity and humor.' Philip Morrison (Scientific American) "A light-hearted and readable volume with a wide range of applications to which the author has been a productive contributor - useful mathematics outside the formalities of theorem and proof." Martin Gardner ER -