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 ...

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 ...

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 ...