Miscellaneous Notes
I'm attempting to collect on this page various notes that I've written
at various times. As of now, this list is quite incomplete.
- Algorithmic Number Theory
These notes were written as part of a seminar that I ran during Fall 2000 at CSUN.
- Algorithmic Number Theory I Cyclicity
of units of Z/p^n for odd p, Carmichael numbers.
- Algorithmic Number Theory II Primality testing,
Solovay-Strassen test, Quadratic Reciprocity.
- Algorithmic Number Theory III Miller-Rabin test.
- Algorithmic Number Theory IV Factorization: Pollard's
p-1 test, and Lenstra's elliptic curve algorithm.
- Division Algebras
These are some expository articles I wrote on division algebras.
- Division Algebras Should be readable by high school students interested in mathematics and undergraduate students in science and engineering.
- Some notes on the quaternions. Notes for a talk I gave at AU-KBC (Chennai) to engineers on how the quaternions can be used to quantify 3-d rotation.
Last modified June 5th, 2001. Contact
al.sethuraman@email.csun.edu for questions.