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The symmetry incarnations
This post was originally published on October 6, 2012. I recently rediscovered it and decided to republish it with a few updates. Geometric symmetry in nature is often a sign of unperturbedness, as if nothing has interfered with a natural … Continue reading
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Tagged anastomosis, asymptote, Banach-Tarski paradox, Big Bang Theory, cellular automata, degrees of freedom, electro-weak symmetry breaking, fractals, Gilbreath's conjecture, hypercube, Large Hadron Collider, Mandelbrot sets, Mulliken symbols, Nambu-Goldstone bosons, prime numbers, surface tension, symmetry, thermodynamics, V.S. Ramachandran
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Inventors of public-key cryptography win 2016 Turing Award
Cryptography pioneers receive ACM A.M. Turing award In “New Directions in Cryptography,” Diffie and Hellman presented an algorithm that showed that asymmetric or public-key cryptography was possible. In Diffie and Hellman’s invention, a public key, which is not secret and … Continue reading
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Tagged Martin Hellman, prime numbers, public-key cryptography, RSA algorithm, Whitfield Diffie
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The Symmetry Incarnations – Part I
Symmetry in nature is a sign of unperturbedness. It means nothing has interfered with a natural process, and that its effects at each step are simply scaled-up or scaled-down versions of each other. For this reason, symmetry is aesthetically pleasing, … Continue reading
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Tagged anastomosis, asymptote, Banach-Tarski paradox, Big Bang Theory, cellular automata, degrees of freedom, electro-weak symmetry breaking, fractals, Gilbreath's conjecture, hypercube, Large Hadron Collider, Mandelbrot sets, Mulliken symbols, Nambu-Goldstone bosons, prime numbers, surface tension, symmetry, thermodynamics, V.S. Ramachandran
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