This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2008, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA in August 2008. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 184...
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how...