Advanced Quantitative Analysis (Willard, Hobart H.; Diehl, Harvey)

Willard Thompson

Complexity theory has a profound influence on the field of cryptology. The time complexity of breaking a cipher system must be significant enough to thwart any adversary from succeeding. However, with the emergence of quantum computers an adversary may have no difficulty in breaking known cipher systems. If quantum computers would exist today new mechanisms for security would need to be built. ...

Willard Burr Soper

William Harvey

Ttiic greater the man the greater are his potentialities for good or for evil, and in many instances for both good and evil. The influence of many great men lias been during their lifttime almost entirely good, yet much harm has been done in their names through the unreasoning hero-worship of posterity. For fifteen hundred years, commencing from the second century of the Christian era, the teac...

William Harvey

j This is one of the 11 Masters of Medicine" series, the introductory volume of which we reviewed in March. Everything as been done to make the record of the life of this truly great ^>an as complete as possible ; and although the material at the author's disposal was somewhat scanty, yet we have a consecutive and very readable biography supplemented by wellhosen extracts from Harvey's works. T...

William Harvey

as part of the moral order on the one hand and as pathological phenomena on the other. Dr. Riese writes interestingly of his seventeenth century theorists, and the reader will find much of what he has to say rewarding, especially with respect to the work of medical men so little known as de la Forge and de la Chambre. Rather than praise the obvious merits of Dr. Riese's monograph, however, I sh...