Brown University’s national mathematics research institute has been tapped to lead an $8 million Simons Foundation project aimed at bringing new computational resources to research in arithmetic geometry and number theory, fields of study that lie at the foundation of cryptography, error-correcting codes and other useful algorithms.
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