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Neal Koblitz is a co-inventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, and his autobiographical memoirs are collected in this volume. Besides his own personal career in mathematics and cryptography, Koblitz details his travels to the Soviet Union, Latin America, Vietnam and elsewhere; political activism; and academic controversies relating to math education, the C. P. Snow two-culture problem, and mistreatment of women in academia. These engaging stories fully capture the experiences of a student and later a scientist caught up in the tumultuous events of his generation.

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<p>From the reviews: <p> Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician has recently been published by Springer Verlag. focuses on Koblitz 's life and his many journeys. serve as a travelogue as well as an autobiography, and give a different perspective on some of the countries than one might find elsewhere. Random Curves is a fun read and an interesting insight into the mind of a prolific and active mathematician. (Darren Glass, MathDL, March, 2008)<p> Neal Koblitz is my kind of guy. How do I know? I've never met him, never even saw him on a platform at the AMS or MAA. But I've just read his memoir, Random Curves. He doesn't pull his punches. He knows right from wrong. He speaks truth to power! Koblitz attended Harvard College from 1965 to 1969. He majored in math and organized for the Progressive Labor Party, a Mao-ist oriented anti-war organization. In those days many people thought of Mao Tse-Tung as an ascetic poet-of-the-people type of revolutionary, uniting the best qualities of Vla

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