The Best of (Math and Crypto) from XKCD (original) (raw)
XKCD is a wonderful thrice-weekly webcomic of "romance, sarcasm, math, and language" written by Randall Munroe. Listed below are some of my favorite xkcd dealing with mathematics and/or cryptography. And if you have trouble understanding any of them, there's even a websiteExplainXKCD devoted to explaining Randall's quirkly and oftimes obscure humor!
CRYPTOGRAPHY
- #153: Cryptography
- #177: Alice and Bob
- #364: Responsible Behavior
- #1121: A Cool Proof-of-Identity Protocol
- #1553: Public key
- #1935: 2018
- #296: Middle-earth dictionary attack (And one from the Abstruse Goose Webcomic)
MATHEMATICS #263: Certainty
- #410: Math Paper
- #435: Purity
- #539: Boyfriend
- #599: Apocalypse
- #710: Collatz Conjecture
- #870: Thesis defense
- #1201: Integration by Parts
- #1856: Existence Proof
- #1856: Garbage Math
- #2028: Complex Numbers
- #2343: Mathematical Symbol Fight
- #982 Set Theorey
- #2529 Unsolved Math Problems
- #2545 Bayes' Theorem
- #2566 Decorative Constants
OTHER FAVORITES
- #302: Names
- #1403: Thesis defense