Applied Number Theory

• Main Authors: Niederreiter, Harald (Author), Winterhof, Arne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Data structures (Computer science).; Information theory.; Number theory.; Number Theory.; Information and Communication, Circuits.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.

This textbook effectively builds a bridge from basic number theory to recent advances in applied number theory. It presents the first unified account of the four major areas of application where number theory plays a fundamental role, namely cryptography, coding theory, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, an...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 A Review of Number Theory and Algebra
• 2 Cryptography
• 3 Coding Theory
• 4 Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
• 5 Pseudorandom Numbers
• 6 Further Applications
• Bibliography
• Index.