Preface
Bent functions deserve our bent to study them...
This book is devoted to such objects of discrete mathematics as Boolean bent functions. These functions have a remarkable property: each of them is at the maximal possible Hamming distance from the class of all affine Boolean functions. This extremal property distinguishes bent functions as the special mysterious class and leads to numerous applications of bent functions in combinatorics, coding theory, and cryptography.
Bent functions were introduced by O. Rothaus, an American mathematician, in the 1960s. At the same time, bent functions were studied in the USSR by V. A. Eliseev and O. P. Stepchenkov: they called such functions minimal functions. A little later J. A. Maiorana, R. L. ...
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