He was a great mathematician. I’m experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, because a few hours ago I was reading about Conway polynomials: “While there is

He was a great mathematician. I’m experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, because a few hours ago I was reading about Conway polynomials: “While there is a unique finite field of order p^n up to isomorphism, the representation of the field elements depends on the choice of the irreducible polynomial. The Conway polynomial is a way of standardizing this choice.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_polynomial_(finite_fields) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_polynomial_(finite_fi...