Several years ago we were invited to create a new general education mathematics course for the Honors Academy at Radford University. Wanting to create a multidisciplinary course that would demonstrate some interesting mathematical applications and also be accessible and intriguing to students with a wide variety of interests and backgrounds, we decided on a course in cryptology. Designed for students whose prior experience with mathematics includes only a basic understanding of algebra, statistics, and number theory at the secondary level, the course has been one of the most popular offerings at the Honors Academy.
When deciding on material for the course, since we expected most of the students to come from nontechnical fields, our goal ...
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