Tag: math
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RSA Cryptography: Alice and Bob
Bob and Alice sending each other messages (AI generated picture) Imagine trying to piece together a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of scattered pieces. It’s easy to make a mess, but nearly impossible to reassemble without knowing the original pattern. This is the core of a one-way function: simple to compute in one direction, but fiendishly…
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Triangularized: Sierpinski’s Gasket and Pascal’s Triangle
Triangularized: Sierpinski’s Gasket and Pascal’s Triangle Michael Emmerich, September 28th. 2024 Introduction The Sierpinski Gasket is a fractal pattern named after the Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969). Sierpiński was a prominent figure in set theory, number theory, and topology, and he introduced several well-known fractals, including the Sierpinski Gasket (also known as the Sierpinski Triangle)…
Michael Emmerich 