Mersenne Numbers and Fermat Numbers

by Elena Deza

This book contains a complete detailed description of two classes of special numbers closely related to classical problems of the Theory of Primes. There is also extensive discussions of applied issues related to Cryptography.In Mathematics, a Mersenne number (named after Marin Mersenne, who studied them in the early 17-th century) is a number of the form Mn = 2n - 1 for positive integer n.In Mathematics, a Fermat number (named after Pierre de Fermat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811230315
• ISBN13: 9789811230318
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"