#but looking for weaknesses in prime number factorization algorithms has huge ramifications in modern cryptographic systems
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Even 15 years later, I’m still amazed whenever I think back to how I couldn’t get my Honor’s project approved by the mathematics professor because it was “too much Computer Science,” but the computer science faculty wouldn’t approve it because it was “too much Math.”
#personal#computer nerd#mathematics#STEM#I ended up doing basically a book report on the Riemann hypothesis & prime number theory#none of which I can remember nor any of which has any practical application#but looking for weaknesses in prime number factorization algorithms has huge ramifications in modern cryptographic systems#and I'm gonna stay mad about it
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