When the e-mail
is the option of choose to promote your research.
7. Test for Primes Menaces Internet
(Excerpt from Story # 7, in “100 Top Science Stories of 2002”)
“The e-mail that
three Indian computer scientists sent to a few dozen of the world’s best
mathematicians on August 4 was shockingly simple and elegant. Their algorithm,
a scant 13 lines long, provided a test for whether a number is “Prime”... when mathematicians around the world opened
their e-mail the next morning and
looked at the work of Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena of the
Indina Institute of Technology in
Source: Discover
(Special Issue: The Year in Science), January 2003, 24(1): 61.
© Copyright
2003 The Walt Disney Company.
See it on line at: http://www.discover.com/jan_03/math.html
In the same number, in page 8 there is a math comment:
Numbers, Please (http://www.discover.com/jan_03/letters.html)
I write to express my pleasure with the roundtable discussion ["Does Math
Matter Anymore?" October]. I am an amateur logician, having had a lifelong
fascination with foundations, logic, and set theory. The math situation in
Philip Meguire
—
The full “Roundtable Discussion” can be seen at: http://www.discover.com/oct_02/featroundtable.html
Other notes:
“One of the main features of this result is that the proof is neither too complex nor too long (their preprint paper is only 9 pages long!), and relies on very innovative and insightful use of results from number theory.”
Other Internet sites:
“Three math wizards have found a way to identify extremely large prime numbers. Unfortunately, their work may make hacking encryption protocols on the Internet much too easy” (page 3, Discover, Jan., 2003)
To download their full old version of paper in PDF: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality.pdf
To download their full new, revised version (PDF): http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality_v3.pdf
To see some FAQs: http://crypto.cs.mcgill.ca/~stiglic/PRIMES_P_FAQ.html
The news reports in Indian Magazines: http://www.flonnet.com/fl1917/19171290.htm, http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/aug/10prime.htm
The news report in other countries Magazines: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s647647.htm , http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949170.html, http://www.newstribune.com/stories/081002/wor_0810020057.asp
(Note: In their Web
page, the Indian discoverers have a very ugly link under the title of “Assorted Related Links” in which they
manifest their political views as “warriors against the war on