RICAM Colloquium
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Thursday, October 19
15:30, SP 416-2
Title: Applications of Number Theory
Abstract:
Number theory, which Gauss called the queen of mathematics, has always been considered a very beautiful field of mathematics, producing lovely results and elegant proofs. While only very few real-life applications were known in the past, today number theory is everywhere: in supermarket bar code scanners, in our cars' GPS systems, in online banking ...
In this talk we will give a short introduction to the four main application areas of number theory:
- cryptography
- coding theory
- (quasi-)Monte Carlo methods
- pseudorandom number generation