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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician

by Neal I Koblitz

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ISBN13: 9783540740773
ISBN10: 3540740775
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These autobiographical memoirs of Neal Koblitz, coinventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, cover many topics besides his own personal career in mathematics and cryptography - travels to the Soviet Union, Latin America, Vietnam and elsewhere, political activism, and academic controversies relating to math education, the C. P. Snow two-culture problem, and mistreatment of women in academia.

The stories speak for themselves and reflect the experiences of a student and later a scientist caught up in the tumultuous events of his generation.

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ISBN:
9783540740773
Subtitle:
Journeys of a Mathematician
Author:
Koblitz, Neal I
Author:
Koblitz, Neal
Author:
Koblitz, Neal I.
Publisher:
Springer
Subject:
History -- Philosophy.
Subject:
Number Theory
Copyright:
2008
Publication Date:
January 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
392
Dimensions:
9.33x6.46x1.00 in. 1.80 lbs.
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