Does God Play Dice

1. Introduction to Cryptography2. Classical Cipher Systems3. The Information-Theoretical Approach4. The Data Encryption Standard5. Shift Registers6. Public-Key Systems7. Authentication8. Key Management and Network Security

1. Three Surprises from Combinatorics and Number Theory2. Four Minor Gems from Geometry3. A Problem in Checker-Jumping4. The Generation of Prime Numbers5. Two Combinatorial Proofs6. Bicentric Polygons Steiner Chains and the Hexlet7. A Theorem of Gabriel Lame8. Box-packing Problems9. A Theorem of Bang and the Isosceles Tetrahedron10. An Intriguing Series11. Chvatal's Art Gallery Theorem12. The Set of Distances Determined by n Points in the Plane13. A Putnam Paper Problem14. Lovasz' Proof of a The...

complete jaargang