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Factorization and primality testing by david bressoud. Unlike integer factorization, primality tests do not generally give prime factors, only stating whether the input number is prime or not. Factorization and primality testing edition 1 available in. David marius bressoud born march 27, 1950 in bethlehem, pennsylvania is an american mathematician who works in number theory, combinatorics, and special functions. This well written and readable book covers the basics of primality testing algorithms ranging from trial division and the sieve of eratosthenes to elliptic curve techniques. Bressoud, factorization and primality testing undergraduate texts in mathematics, springerverlag. Bressoud, factorization and primality testing, is a good, elementary treatment of many of the number theoretic concepts needed for factoring algorithms, but stops short in his analysis compared to our needs. Primality testing and subexponential factorization david emerson advisor. Elliptic curves, factorization and primality testing. Preface to the second edition in preparing a new edition of ideals, varieties, and algorithms, our goal was to correct some of the omissions of the. Bressoud, factorization and primality testing, springer. We have reduced the problem of finding even perfect numbers to deciding when mp 2 p 1 is prime. Bressoud, factorization and primality testing undergraduate texts in.
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An introductionto the theory of numbers fifth edition, first and second printings by ivan niven. Prime factorization is a mathematical problem with a long history. As of 2019 he is dewitt wallace professor of mathematics at macalester college, director of the conference board of the mathematical sciences and a former president of the mathematical association of america. Sequences of numbers generated by addition in formal groups and new primality and factorization tests d. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Pseudocode for integer algorithms in bressouds factorization and primality testing w.
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