Product Description: Describes the development and extension of fundamental idea of Edouard Lucas, a French mathematician and mathematical recreationist, that is still used today in the verification of the largest primes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The proceedings contain 20 selected, refered contributions arising from the International Conference on Public-Key Cryptography and Computational Number Theory held in Warsaw, Poland, on September 11-15, 2000. This volume contains articles from leading experts in the world on cryptography and computational number thoery, providing an account of the state of research in a wide variety of topics related to the conference theme...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Pell’s Equation is a very simple Diophantine equation that has been known to mathematicians for over 2000 years. Even today research involving this equation continues to be very active, as can be seen by the publication of at least 150 articles related to this equation over the past decade...read more