Identification Numbers and Check Digit Schemes - Couverture souple

Kirtland, Joseph

 
9780883857205: Identification Numbers and Check Digit Schemes
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0883857200 ISBN 13 : 9780883857205
Editeur : The Mathematical Association of America, 2001

Synopsis

This book develops the mathematical skills necessary for the investigation of the increasingly pervasive codes used to identify everything from credit cards to books to supermarket goods. An important part of such codes is the check digit, which can point out when an error has been made, either accidentally in transmission, or deliberately in an attempt at fraud. Mathematics plays a crucial role in designing and verifying such check digit schemes. Beginning undergraduates and pre-university students should find this book both accessible and fun. In the process of describing the identification number schemes, the author introduces many fundamental areas of discrete mathematics, including modular arithmetic and group theory, with emphasis on their applications. A unique point of the book is the way it offers students the possibility of writing papers summarizing a given topic to improve their understanding. It also contains pointers into the literature for further reading.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book develops the mathematical skills necessary for the investigation of the increasingly pervasive codes used to identify everything from credit cards to books to supermarket goods. An important part of such codes is the check digit, which can point out when an error has been made, either accidentally in transmission, or deliberately in an attempt at fraud. Mathematics plays a crucial role in designing and verifying such check digit schemes. Beginning undergraduates and pre-university students should find this book both accessible and fun. In the process of describing the identification number schemes, the author introduces many fundamental areas of discrete mathematics, including modular arithmetic and group theory, with emphasis on their applications. A unique point of the book is the way it offers students the possibility of writing papers summarizing a given topic to improve their understanding. It also contains pointers into the literature for further reading.

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Éditeur
The Mathematical Association of America
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0883857200
ISBN 13 
9780883857205
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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