Going to war over prime numbers

Article Abstract:

The UK Government Communications Headquarters claimed in 1997 to have invented public key cryptography in the late 1960s, while Dr Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman claim to have invented the concept in 1976. Diffie accepts that the two parties may have been conducting parallel research, although his findings were openly published. The invention revolutionized communications engineering and applied mathematics, with the parallel research causing some to question if inventions are better utilized if they are achieved in academia rather than in secret.

Industrial research, Ethical aspects, Origin, Public key encryption, Scientists in government, Government scientists

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Scientific approach to survival holidays; tropical 'research tourists.'

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Young people visiting the tropics are helping scientific research by collecting data as part of their holiday. They are aged between 17 and 27 and learn jungle survival techniques first. Countries visited include Indonesia, and the data collected includes tree growth, illegal rattan collection and uses and economic value of tropical plants. Animal and insect life is also studied.

Research, Jungle ecology

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Survival was a numbers game

Article Abstract:

Mathematicians do not have a different type of brain to everyone else but are able to comprehend abstraction. They can use their ability to reason with abstract concepts rather than just objects.

Analysis, Practice, Mathematicians, Reasoning, Abstraction

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