AKA modular arithmetic over a prime, which is also the backbone of all modern cryptography
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u`m
i'm a big fan of monsieur Galois
finite fields are the foundation of cryptographic security from the combinatorial infeasibility of iteration
the roots are important though... the bigger, the more ways it can collide with another field and problems
Who is monsieur Galois
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois
there was lots of french guys who grokked math in a big way in that time... another one is ... hmmm i consider him to be the grandfather of chaos theory... uhmmmm
shit it's on the tip of my tongue, halp
ok there's "laplace"
and uhm what others... damn, been too long since i read the chaos math book