ENGLISH

Elliptic Curves: Number Theory and Cryptography

By Lawrence C. Washington

Book information

Publisher
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Year
2008
ISBN
1420071467, 9781420071467
LCC
QA567.2.E44 W37 2008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5352723 bytes)
Series
Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Edition
2
Pages
524\524
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

I own both the first and second editions of this book. I am an amateur mathetician; I don't think there is a siginicant difference in the two editions, if you are a non-professional like me. They are both excellent books, and almost exponentially inrease in difficulty as one gets further into them. The writing is less dense, and more amateur-friendly, than Washington's other famous book on cyclotomtic theory. There is some surprising humor in "Elliptic Curves" too. Washington makes a clever pun on Fermat's marginalia. I would gladly recommend either addition---unless you are a Faltings to begin with.charlie sanders

Similar books