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Sort of like how the valuable parts of math textbooks are the theorems and proofs, with the problem sets (i.e. implementations) being nice but arbitrary extras?
by vharuck 4y ago
Sort of like how the valuable parts of math textbooks are the theorems and proofs, with the problem sets (i.e. implementations) being nice but arbitrary extras?
- jayhoon 4y agoThis is an interesting angle on essentially the same problem. Can a set of theorems about the prime numbers lead another group of people to the RSA encryption, for example? Considering that Clifford Cocks invented a similar system 4 years before Rivest, Shamir and Adleman (and even before Diffie and Hellman published their cryptosystem), the answer seems to be "yes". On the other hand, that 4 year difference means that people have to be ready for the idea, i.e., work on their "problem sets".