The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Number Theory (Ams Short Course Lecture Notes)

Burr, Stefan A.

ISBN 10: 0821855018 / ISBN 13: 9780821855010

Editore: Amer Mathematical Society, 1993

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• Titolo: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Number Theory (Ams Short Course Lecture Notes)
• Editore: Amer Mathematical Society
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0821855018
• ISBN 13: 9780821855010
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Mathematics

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Riassunto

This book is based on the AMS Short Course, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Number Theory, held in Orono, Maine, in August 1991. This Short Course provided some views into the great breadth of applications of number theory outside cryptology and highlighted the power and applicability of number-theoretic ideas. Because number theory is one of the most accessible areas of mathematics, this book will appeal to a general mathematical audience as well as to researchers in other areas of science and engineering who wish to learn how number theory is being applied outside of mathematics. All of the chapters are written by leading specialists in number theory and provides excellent introduction to various applications.

Contenuti

M. R. Schroeder: The unreasonable effectiveness of number theory in physics, communication, and music; G. E. Andrews: The reasonable and unreasonable effectiveness of number theory in statistical mechanics; J. C. Lagarias: Number theory and dynamical systems; G. Marsaglia: The mathematics of random number generators; V. Pless: Cyclotomy and cyclic codes; M. Douglas McIlroy: Number theory in computer graphics.