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Hello Spooks, If you like numbers and cryptography, check out this page on prime numbers and how they make codes more difficult to crack. I think 007 is a prime number. :-) http://www.claymath.org/posters/primes/
Dan Malloy ______________________________________________________________
Dan,
Thanks for the link and the references found there. It will take me a while to digest it all! :-)
For a fascinating inside look at the development of RSA (without a lot of math), interested spooks might like to read "Crypto" by Steven Levy, published 2001, and in paper back by Penguin in 2002, with index, glossary, bibliography, and end-notes. ISBN 0 14 02.4432 8. The subtitle of the book is "how the code rebels beat the government - saving privacy in the digital age", aptly worded. Fun to read and very revealing.
Of a more general nature, mostly historical but still without the math, I recomment "The music of the Primes (searching to solve the greatest mystery in mathematics)" by Marcus du Sautoy, 2003 but 2004 in paperback. ISBN 0-06-093558-8. It's a wonderful look inside the world of mathematicians, a world that few ordinary folk realize even exists.
Happy reading!
... Martin VE3OAT
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