Post by Dartmouth College

The encryption securing your bank accounts relies on math problems so so challenging that they’re nearly impossible to crack. Benjamin Singer ‘27 just earned a Goldwater Scholarship to study them—and he's writing a reference book on the subject as his senior thesis. https://bit.ly/4sLpcuF Oh, and he’s been working on this math since middle school. "Ben is completely fearless in jumping into some of the most challenging and abstract topics in contemporary mathematics, while at the same time remaining quite grounded in actual computation and problem solving," says Asher Auel, associate professor of mathematics.