The dynamics, statistics, and projective geometry of Galois fields
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Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press
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2011
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x, 80 p.: ill.
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Includes index
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V.I. Arnold
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Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. What is a Galois field?; 2. The organisation and tabulation of Galois fields; 3. Chaos and randomness in Galois field tables; 4. Equipartition of geometric progressions along a finite one-dimensional torus; 5. Adiabatic study of the distribution of geometric progressions of residues; 6. Projective structures generated by a Galois field; 7. Projective structures: example calculations; 8. Cubic field tables; Index