Cryptography Reference
In-Depth Information
Part I
Arithmetic and
Number Theory in C
How necessary arithmetic and the entire art of mathematics are can be easily
measured, in that nothing can be created that is not connected with precise
number and measurement, and no independent art can exist without its
measures and proportions.
—Adam Ries: Topic of Calculation , 1574
Typographical rules for manipulating numerals are actually arithmetical
rules for operating on numbers.
—D. R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The human brain would no longer be burdened with anything that needed to
be calculated! Gifted people would again be able to think instead of scribbling
numbers.
—Sten Nadolny: The Discovery of Slowness , trans. Ralph Freedman
 
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