Neal Koblitz

Neal I. Koblitz ( born 1948 ) is an American mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry, number theory and cryptography.

Koblitz studied at Harvard ( where he was Putnam Fellow in 1968 and 1969 made ​​his final ) and in 1974 received his doctorate from Princeton University with Nicholas Katz with the dissertation - adic variation of Zeta Functions of Varieties over Finite Fields. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle and also a professor at the " Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research," the Canadian University of Waterloo.

Koblitz invented independently in 1985 (next to Victor S. Miller ), the Elliptic Curve Cryptography and is also a pioneer in the application of hyperelliptic functions in cryptography ( Hyperelliptic Cryptosystems. Journal of cryptology, Vol.1, 1989, p.139 ). Koblitz is known for a number of textbooks on number theory, where he worked among others with - adic Analysis, and cryptography.

Koblitz has traveled widely and is committed to the student exchange with developing countries. These trips began when he ( at Harvard ) in the PLP ( Progressive Labor Party ) was active as a student in the SDS ( Students for a Democratic Society) and. He traveled among other things, to Nicaragua, Peru, Cuba and El Salvador, taught, among others, in Vietnam and South America, living in the 1970s and a half years in the Soviet Union, where he was still a student ( the money he earned by translation of mathematical articles from the Russian ). With his wife Ann Hibner Koblitz ( Professor of Gender Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe ) in 1985 he founded the Kovalevskaia Award in honor of scientists from developing countries. Among other things, the flow of revenue from the 1983 biography of Sofya Kovalevskaya, who wrote his wife, in a.

Writings

  • Random Curves - Journeys of a Mathematician. Springer 2007 ( autobiography).
  • - adic Numbers, - adic Analysis, and Zeta - Functions. Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 1977, 1984.
  • Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography. Springer 1988.
  • A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography. Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 1987, 2nd edition 1994.
  • Introduction to Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms. Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 1984, 2nd edition 1993.
  • - adic Analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1980 ( London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes ).
  • Publisher: Number Theory Related to Fermat 's Last Theorem. Birkhäuser 1982.
  • Why Study Equations over Finite Fields? Mathematics Magazine, May 1982.
  • The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography. Notices AMS 2007, No.8, pdf file
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