Neal Koblitz is a mathematician who, starting in the 1980s, became fascinated by mathematical questions in cryptography. In his article "The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography," ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Most executives are not losing sleep over cryptographic algorithms, and they should not have ...

"Large bureaucracies, with the power that the computer gives them, become more powerful," said New York Times reporter David Burnham in a 1983 C-Span interview about his book The Rise of the Computer ...

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Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Recently, I co-authored and published a math paper that solved a 15-year-old mystery. But, unlike a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

The portly, balding sculptor-turned-architect must have drawn a few curious gazes as he set up a complicated painting apparatus in the corner of a Renaissance-era piazza. He planted his instrument, ...

Two guideposts mathematics professor Ron Mullin followed in determining his future involved avoiding any suit-and-tie profession and not being stuck in a lab. This might have been him exercising his ...

Cryptography is just about as old as written communication itself, and mathematics has long supplied methods for the cryptographic toolbox. Starting in the 1970s, increasingly sophisticated ...