In Code : A Mathematical Journey - A Young Woman's Mathematical Journey

Flannery, David, Flannery, Sarah

ISBN 10: 1861972717 / ISBN 13: 9781861972712

Editore: Profile Books Limited, 2001

Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Codice articolo 38418235-75

Riassunto:

Sarah Flannery is a cryptographer and mathematician already with an international reputation. She is also a sport-loving Co. Cork teenager who takes her Leaving Certificate next year. In this remarkable book, written with her father, her first maths teacher, she writes about her life, mathematics and making codes - and this extraordinary year. That is just one of the scores of media comments from all over the world which followed Sarah's winning this January, at the age of 16, the Irish Young Scientist of the Year award with a highly innovative, speedy and secure system of encoding data on the Internet. Since then she has travelled the world and lectured, and had approaches from many computer companies and universities. Her system still needs full peer evaluation but what is not in doubt is the originality of her mathematical mind. Her book offers many different things: it is a fresh and modest self-portrait by a girl who is the reverse of a comic-strip swot; it is an inspiring account of a mathematical education; with many puzzles and examples it offers a mass of insights into cryptography and numeracy.

Informazioni sugli autori: David Flannery was born in 1952. He lectures in mathematics at Cork Institute of Technology.

Sarah Flannery was born in 1982. She is the eldest of five children and is currently studying Computer Science at Cambridge. Her parents and four brothers live in Blarney, Co. Cork.

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Titolo: In Code : A Mathematical Journey - A Young ...
Casa editrice: Profile Books Limited
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Condizione: Good