Talk:Sarah Flannery

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Sarah Flannery and David Flannery are the authors of "In Code" From Publishers Weekly: "At 16, Flannery made worldwide headlines as Ireland's 1999 Young Scientist of the Year for her discovery and presentation of the Cayley-Purser algorithm, an innovative encryption system roughly 22 times faster than the worldwide standard RSA algorithm. She declines the "genius" label, and a method for cracking her algorithm has since been discovered, but this only makes the book more interesting and unpredictable. It's more about the journey's adventure than the destination and less about Sarah's specialness than her spirit. The mix is part memoir, part puzzle book and part mathematical exploration, with scattered bits of mathematical lore. (The heaviest math is concentrated into two chapters and the appendices, leaving the remainder easy going for the fainthearted.) The puzzle-solving approach to math cultivated by her father (and coauthor) encourages exploration, an adventurous attitude, attention to concepts more than calculations and sheer enjoyment of taking on a challenge. It's also more egalitarian than proof-based approaches, giving newcomers a more equal footing with old pros, emphasizing the process of discovery and making connections, which is more fundamental than finished proofs. All this is wonderfully illustrated by Flannery's own story of her rapidly developing interest and proficiency in cryptography, as well as by the puzzles she uses to get readers thinking and introduce some basic concepts. Other threads, running from brief descriptions of her grandparents to her father's teaching methods and her relationship to family in the face of a media frenzy, give her story added depth, warmth and humor. 8 pages of b&w photos. (June)Forecast: Workman is hoping to, and should, attract budding young mathematicians with a first printing of 35,000, a $65,000 marketing budget and an eight-city author tour."

Cryptography - A new algorithm versus the RSA
The paper Cryptography - A new algorithm versus the RSA is published on Flannery's website. The article claims that the paper was published in 1999. As of January 2006, Mathematical Reviews has not published a review of the paper, which indicates that the paper was never published in a mathematical journal. --Aleph4 17:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Sarah Flannery's book "In Code" was first published by Profile Books Ltd (UK) in 2000 according to the copyright page of the book. The two prefaces in the book, one written by David and Sarah Flannery jointly, the other by David Flannery alone, claim a date in January 2000. The details of Ms Flannery's work had been completed, printed and sold to the public in book form during 2000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.2.126.176 (talk) 14:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)