I’ve enjoyed reading the Math 152 Weblog associated with the Discrete Mathematics course of the same name at Harvard. Many of the posts should be of interest to Metroplex Math Circle attendees, but two recent posts struck me as being very similar to topics from our Fall 2008 lectures. Math 152 helps you get jobs… [...]
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Harvard’s Math 152
Posted in resources, tagged Alicia Prieto Langarica, Bennette Harris, cryptography, Harvard, Math 152, math and finance, Richard Rusczyk on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dr. Bennette Harris Recap
Posted in meeting, resources, tagged Bennette Harris, data encryption, modular arithmetic, number theory on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The second lecture of the season provided lessons in both applied mathematics and number theory. Dr. Bennette Harris began with an easy to follow introduction to binary and computer operations including XOR. He then defined the terms “encoding” and “encryption” and gave several examples of early encryption methods. Dr. Harris described the difference between “strong” [...]
Dr. Bennette Harris Today!
Posted in meeting, tagged Bennette Harris, computer science on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Please join us today for a lecture by Dr. Bennette Harris on “Computer Data Encryption – Decrypted.” We will meet at 2:00 in our usual location: room 2.410 of the Engineering and Computer Sciences South (ECSS) building on the UT Dallas campus. The building is at the corner of Drive A and Rutford. As we [...]
Dr. Bennette Harris – Problem Set 2
Posted in meeting, tagged Bennette Harris, cryptography, data encryption, decryption, number theory, problems on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the continuation of Dr. Bennett Harris’ problems to warm us up before his lecture on September 27th. Congratulations to Dominic for being the first to answer the previous set of problems in the comments. Another happy discovery is the fact that WordPress, which hosts this site, supports the use of code! Problems A [...]
Dr. Bennette Harris – Problem Set 1
Posted in meeting, tagged Bennette Harris, cryptography, data encryption, decryption, number theory, problems on September 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This Saturday’s (9/27) Math Circle lecture by Dr. Bennett Harris on “Computer Data Encryption – Decrypted” promises to be a great combination of number theory and applied math. To warm up the students, Dr. Harris forwarded some problems that I will post in two parts. Feel free to offer solutions in the comments or to [...]
Bennette Harris – September 27th
Posted in Friends of MMC, meeting, tagged Bennette Harris, meeting on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are very happy to announce our speaker for September 27th. MMC, through the generosity of UT Dallas, flies these esteemed speakers to Dallas just to speak at our math circles. We will post with more information on Dr. Harris’ talk as the date approaches. Bennette Harris is currently an Associate Professor and former department [...]
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