Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for Factorization

• Main Author: Riesel, Hans (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2012.
• Series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Algorithms.; Number theory.; Number Theory.; Data Encryption.; Applications of Mathematics.; Mathematics, general.

Published in the mid 1980s, the highly successful first edition of this title investigated the mathematical underpinnings of computer encryption, a discipline drawing heavily on the factorization of large numbers into primes. The book served a broad audience of researchers, students, practitioners o...