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R. Rivest, A. Shamir

The magic words are squeamish ossifrage.

[This sentence is the result when a coded message in Martin Gardner's column about factoring the famous number RSA-129 is decoded.]

See the article whose title is the above quotation by Barry Cipra, SIAM News, July 1994, 1, 12-13.

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Zeeman, E Christopher (1925 - )

Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity.


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