ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Professor Song Y. Yan majored in both Computer Science and Mathematics, and obtained a PhD in Number Theory in the Department of Mathematics at the University of York, England. His current research interests include Computational Number Theory, Computational Complexity Theory, Algebraic Coding Theory, Public-Key Cryptography and Information/Network Security. He published, among others, the following five well-received and popular books in computational number theory and public-key cryptography:

1. Perfect, Amicable and Sociable Numbers: A Computational Approach, World Scientific, 1996.

2. Number Theory for Computing, Springer, First Edition, 2000, Second Edition, 2002. (Polish Translation, Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, Warsaw, 2006; Chinese Translation, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, 2007.)

3. Cryptanalytic Attacks on RSA, Springer, 2007. (Russian Translation, Moscow, 2010.)

4. Primality Testing and Integer Factorization in Public-Key Cryptography, Springer, First Edition, 2004; Second Edition, 2009.

5. Quantum Attacks on Public-Key Cryptosystems, Springer, 2012.

Song can be reached by email address songyuanyan@gmail.com anytime.