Math 110 Spring 2005 Class Schedule

Homework Assignments

Important Note: This schedule is only tentative, and may be adjusted as necessary during the quarter.
Section numbers below give corresponding reading in Koblitz's book.

March

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

28

29

Section I.1

Introduction, "Big O" notation, computing basics

30

31

Section I.2

Euclidean algorithm, factorization

(April 1)

April

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
4	5 Section I.3 Congruences, Part I	6	7 Sections I.3, I.4 Congruences, Part II HW 1 due	8
11	12 Section III.1 Breaking simple ciphers	13	14 Section III.2 Ciphers using matrices HW 2 due	15
18	19 Section IV.1 Intro to Public Key Crypto, Review for exam	20 MIDTERM I 7-8:30 p.m. Location: 380C	21 Section IV.2 RSA Part I HW 3 due	22
25	26 Section IV.2 RSA Part II	27	28 Section II.1 Properties of finite fields HW 4 due	29

May

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
2	3 Section II.2 Quadratic reciprocity	4	5 Section IV.3 Discrete Log problem HW 5 due	6
9	10 Section V.1 Primality testing	11	12 Section V.4 Factoring Methods and Sieves HW 6 due	13
16	17 Section VI.1 Elliptic curve basics	18	19 Section VI.1 More on elliptic curves HW 7 due	20
23	24 Section VI.2 Elliptic curve crypto	25 MIDTERM II 7-8:30 p.m. Location: TBA	26 Sections VI.2,VI.3 More e-curve crypto, factoring HW 8 due	27
30	31 Error correcting codes

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