In Code by Sarah Flannery

In Code by Sarah Flannery

In January 1999, Sarah Flannery, a sports-loving teenager from Blarney in County Cork, Ireland, was awarded Ireland's Young Scientist of the Year for her extraordinary research and discoveries in Internet cryptography. The following day, her story began appearing in Irish papers and soon after was splashed across the front page of the London Times, complete with a photo of Sarah and a caption calling her brilliant. Just sixteen, she was a mathematician with an international reputation.

IN CODE is a heartwarming story that will have readers cheering Sarah on. Originally published in England and cowritten with her mathematician father, David Flannery, IN CODE is a wonderfully moving story about the thrill of the mathematical chase (Nature) and a paean to intellectual adventure (Times Educational Supplement). A memoir in mathematics, it is all about how a girl next door, nurtured by her family, moved from the simple math puzzles that were the staple of dinnertime conversation to prime numbers, the Sieve of Eratosthenes, Fermat's Little Theorem, googols-and finally into her breathtaking algorithm. Parallel with each step is a modest girl's own self-discovery-her values, her burning curiosity, the joy of persistence, and, above all, her love for her family.

At Ireland's Cork College of Technology, David Flannery teaches mathematics.

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ISBN 13	9780761123842
ISBN 10	0761123849
Title	In Code
Author	Sarah Flannery
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Workman Publishing
Year published	2001-09-01
Number of pages	341
Prizes	Short-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2001
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.