Math 1580 (Cryptography) Fall 2018
Important announcements
8/15/2018 If you are enrolled in this class, please read the course handout.
10/1/2018 Midterm 1 is graded and solutions are available. The class median is 18.5/25 and average is 18.1/25.
Schedule
Class: MWF 10:00 AM to 10:50 PM in Friedman Hall 201
Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-11:45AM; Wednesdays 2:15-3:00PM
In-class midterms: September 26 and October 31
Final Exam: December 18, 2018, 9:00 AM
Detailed class schedule below
Text
'An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography', Hoffstein, Pipher and Silverman, Second edition.
PDF version available for free here with Brown University credentials
Homework policy
Homework comprises 20% of the course grade. It is posted on the course website and is due in class, at the beginning of class, on Fridays in general. No late HW will be accepted for any reason. Instead, I will drop your lowest two HW scores when computing your course grade.
Resources
Joseph Silverman has a mathematical cryptography calculator available here: it computes GCDs, inverses and powers modulo 'm', etc. Feel free to use this while doing homework assignments after Chapter 1, unless indicated otherwise on a problem.
Python for non-programmers if you want to learn to program
Detailed class schedule
Includes
- Rough handwritten lecture notes, in PDF form
- Homework assignments
- Homework solutions
