THE theory of numbers, going back at least as far as the time of Pythagoras, differs in many respects from other branches of mathematics, a fact that may explain the attraction of the subject, not ...

An international team of scientists has obtained the prime factors of the RSA challenge number RSA-768, using the Number Field Sieve. An international team of scientists from EPFL (Switzerland), INRIA ...

An international team of scientists from EPFL (Switzerland), INRIA (France), NTT (Japan), CWI (The Netherlands) and Bonn University (Germany), has obtained the prime factors of the RSA challenge ...

This journal, begun in 1943 as Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, publishes original articles on all aspects of numerical mathematics, book reviews, mathematical tables, and technical ...

Let G = GLn(q), q a prime power, and let r be an odd prime not dividing q. Let s be a semisimple element of G of order prime to r and assume that r divides q°(Λ) - 1 for all elementary divisors Λ of s ...