In Code A Mathematical Journey

ISBN-10: 1565123778

ISBN-13: 9781565123779

Edition: 2003 (Reprint)

Authors: David Flannery, Sarah Flannery

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In January 1999, Sarah Flannery, a sports-loving teenager from Blarney in County Cork, Ireland, was awarded Ireland's Young Scientist of the Year for her extraordinary research and discoveries in Internet cryptography. The following day, her story began appearing in Irish papers and soon after was splashed across the front page of the London Times, complete with a photo of Sarah and a caption calling her "brilliant." Just sixteen, she was a mathematician with an international reputation. IN CODE is a heartwarming story that will have readers cheering Sarah on. Originally published in England and cowritten with her mathematician father, David Flannery, IN CODE is "a wonderfully moving story…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 12/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.96" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Background



Early Influences



Early Challenges



Beginning My First Project



Mathematical Excursions



Dad's Evening Class



Of Prime Importance



The Arithmetic of Cryptography



Sums with a Difference



One Way Only



Public Key Cryptography



Exhibition Time



Young Scientist '98



The Birth of a Project



Young Scientist '99



After-Math



Media Blitz



Around the World and Back


About This Book



"Cryptography--A New Algorithm Versus the RSA"



Answers to Miscellaneous Questions



Euclid's Algorithm



The Euler [phis]-function and the Euler-Fermat Theorem


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index