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Codes and cryptography

Dr. Tim Browning

The study of codes was born at about the same time that humans first put pen to paper (or chisel to stone). In this talk I will give an overview of the subject, from the distant past to the here and now. In particular I shall sketch how number theory has helped to take the subject in a rather new direction.
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