Five Minutes of Prime Time

Let me share a very silly story from roughly 18 years ago! In 2008, I joined RSA , the network security company named after the initials of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman, who were also the founders of RSA, the company. There was a bit of a nerd culture in the workplace where topics like prime numbers, combinatorics, probability theory, etc. were discussed…