The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Simon Singh  (34)
£6.49
|
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh  (38)
£5.99
|
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers (Penguin Press Science) by D.G. Wells  (8)
£6.74
|
"e", The Story of a Number by Eli Maor (5)
£10.99
|
How to Take a Penalty: The Mathematical Curiosities of Sport by Rob Eastaway (2)
£7.99
|
This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but millions of other items are. Join Amazon Prime today. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
| Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links (What is this?) |
DADiSP Math Software
www.dadisp.com
Premium math software for students. Powerful, simple & free. Very cool.
Mathematics
Resources.MyChild.co.uk
Download free maths worksheets for children aged 5 to 11 now
Codes
www.vouchercodes.com
Free Saving Advice on the Latest Codes. No Sign Up.
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Sarah Flannery is the Irish teenager who last year stunned the world by inventing a way of making public-key encryption much more efficient. Given that this is the underlying security technology of e-commerce, that is an achievement that many of the world's leading research laboratories would have been proud of. That it came from a modest, well-adjusted, cheerful Irish teenager is nothing short of miraculous.
Sarah Flannery is the Irish teenager who last year stunned the world by inventing a way of making public-key encryption much more efficient. Given that this is the underlying security technology of e-commerce, that is an achievement that many of the world's leading research laboratories would have been proud of. That it came from a modest, well-adjusted, cheerful Irish teenager is nothing short of miraculous.
In Code is the story of how she did it, and of what happened to her and her family as a result. It's an engaging, almost playful, book in which the reader is encouraged to spend lots of time working out mathematical puzzles set by the authors. This is not sadism on their part, but a cunning plot to get the reader thinking like a cryptographer. It's also a reflection of the way the Flannery family works, for it's clear that puzzle-solving is as much a part of their communal life as eating. The puzzles are interwoven with a narrative of Sarah's annus mirabilis, in which she found a stupendously clever way of easing the computational load which public-key cryptography imposes on machines. What's striking about this account is its level-headed, self-deprecating, eminently sane tone. This is a girl whose head hasn't been turned by fame. And that, in a way, is her greatest achievement.--John Naughton
Book Information
At the age of 16, Sarah won the 1999 Irish Young Scientist of the Year award with her "Cayley-Purser algorithm", a highly innovative, speedy and secure system of encoding data on the Internet. Since then she has travelled the world and lectured, and had approaches from many computer companies and universities. In Code, written with her father David, tells the story of her life, mathematics and making codes.
See all Product Description
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.