The Ubiquitous Reed-Solomon Codes. eccpage.com/reed_solomon_c…

'Adjoint functors arise everywhere.' -- Saunders Mac Lane

A semigroup is a set with an associative binary operation. A monoid is a semigroup with identity. A group is a monoid with inverses.

'Most commonly, a classification yields a stale and useless list -- a phone book more than a tourist guide.' -- Terry Gannon

Polynomial root-finding with Laguerre's method

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“One way to learn a lot of mathematics is by reading the first chapters of many books.”
— Paul R. Halmos

Finite Field Diffie-Hellman primes johndcook.com/blog/2023/09/1…

'It's when you prove something you thought of yourself that you become a mathematician.' -- George Hart

There are 17 ways to write 17 as a sum of primes.