620-142 Mathematics B
First Semester, 2008
620-142 Mathematics B
First Semester, 2008 |
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Interesting Links
You may find the following links to be of use during semester.
Modular arithmetic:
Some online references
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/Modulo.shtml
General article on primes
Online tutorials from University of Saskatchewan (these
seem to work best with Internet Explorer).
Have a look at Number Theory 1 & 2, Encryption 1 & 2.
http://www.cs.usask.ca/resources/tutorials/csconcepts/index.html
A very good collection of material on the history of mathematics:
History of Mathematics archive
Mathematical Induction:
Some online tutorials:
http://www.otal.umd.edu/drweb/induction/tutorial.html (Try lessons 1 and 2)
http://www.themathpage.com/aPreCalc/mathematical-induction.htm
http://www.acts.tinet.ie/induction_645.html
Cryptography:
BBC webpage on the enigma code
Breaking Germany's Enigma Code
An introduction to Cryptography with applets for RSA encryption/decryption:
http://williamstallings.com/Crypt-Tut/Crypto%20Tutorial%20-%20JERIC.html
Some other references
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA
Prime
Number Hide-and-Seek: How the RSA Cipher Works
General article on Public Key Codes
The RSA Factoring Challenge
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2092
Shor's Algorithm for factorization (using a quantum computer):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm
Linear algebra:
If you feel that you need to revise solutions of linear equations try the following:
http://www.tutor.ms.unimelb.edu.au/frame.html
There are online tutorials on linear algebra from Harvey Mudd College at:
http://www.math.hmc.edu/calculus/tutorials/
This web site has two games which are applications of linear algebra:
Linear Transformations:
Coding Theory:
The following web sites contains some interesting background on coding theory:
Barry Cipra, The
Ubiquitous Reed-Solomon Codes
Richard Pinch, Coding theory:
the first 50 years