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9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jack Grigg 9f77c93d4e book: Fix definition of the nth roots of unity 2021-07-09 17:48:03 +01:00
Jack Grigg b2d91140e7 book: Move Sarkar explanation into implementation section 2021-02-23 14:01:47 +00:00
Jack Grigg 6717594c46 book: Render gtab and invtab as matrices 2021-02-19 01:13:16 +00:00
therealyingtong b148c34c10 [book] Add Sarkar sqrt explanation to Fields section 2021-02-19 00:21:05 +00:00
Jack Grigg ba9917e35c book: Linkify URLs in references 2021-02-15 14:38:46 +00:00
Daira Hopwood 20f33f427f Further clarify notation and make sure that the discussion is correct for non-cyclic groups.
Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
2021-01-30 16:16:22 +00:00
Daira Hopwood cda768aa00 Improvements to background section:
* describe groups in general, rather than via the example of F_p^*
* explain the isomorphism between group elements and scalars, and how it is useful
* corrections and pedantry :-)

Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
2021-01-30 01:43:24 +00:00
Daira Hopwood 723ea8feac Clarifications for background, from pairing with Kris.
Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
2021-01-29 19:51:48 +00:00
Jack Grigg f8c5c2e28e book: Add background material
Co-authored-by: Sean Bowe <ewillbefull@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
Co-authored-by: ying tong <yingtong@z.cash>
2021-01-11 20:44:53 +00:00