Numberscape

TOWARDS NUMBERSCAPE (2018-2019)
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  • TOWARDS NUMBERSCAPE(2018-2019) BY EUN SUN CHO

    "All is number."

    The Pythagorean doctrine is quite a legitimate statement here and now because our hyper-technological society is tremendously dependent on numbers. Since the digital revolution, we can access information in a remarkably Pythagorean way.


    Two integers made a significant impact on the technical development of information society: 0 and 1. The digitization transforms continuous variable into the discrete approximation(finite sequence of integers) and then into 0s and 1s. In a transition from Analog-to digital photography, an image has turned from the chemical representation to the approximate arithmetical value. As a result,t processing, storage and transmission of an image carry out with excellent efficiency.


    Among integer, the prime numbers play a significant role in information privacy since the mathematical difficulty of factoring large composite integers is the core element of our modern cryptosystem. Eminently used RSA encryption is an algorithm operated by modern computers to encrypt and decrypt messages applying two prime factors called RSA numbers. RSA2018 which operates in most internet banking systems worldwide has 617 decimal digits that standard desktop computing power would take theoretically over 6,4 quadrillion years to crack.


    In this project, "Towards numberscape", pictures were intended to blend with the prime distribution and the digital representation so that they show the unseen mathematical structure in our hyper-technological society.


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