Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0053270

Zusammenfassung

The area of the professorship is analytic number theory. Originally with classical roots, it has recently changed its face quite drastically through remarkable links to algebraic geometry and representation theory, and maybe more unexpectedly to stochastics, mathematical physics and cryptography. In particular, the widespread use of personal computers, the internet and digital technology demands, among other things, public encryption schemes of high security and algorithms for communication through a noisy channel that depend heavily on advanced number theory. Turning from the big pict...