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Articles by Wojtek Wawrów

Wojtek Wawrów
Wojtek is an undergraduate mathematics student at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is fond of number theory and algebra, but no field of maths is odious to him.
wojowu.students.wmi.amu.edu.pl    All articles by Wojtek
  • The simplest difficult task

    The simplest difficult task

    6 March 2017
    Factorisation is often used in cryptography. But there's something even simpler which turns out to be just as hard.

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