Representations of Finite Fields

There’s little to no easy-to-use, freely available software for working with general finite fields. Let’s fix that.

Joseph Mellor
Technological Singularity
19 min readNov 25, 2023

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An apple representing finite fields.
This article is part 8 in the How to Discover Finite Fields series.

Over the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of effort trying to figure out the best way to explain concepts to a wide audience, which requires that I first figure out the best way to explain it to myself. I’ve found…

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Joseph Mellor
Technological Singularity

BS in Physics, Math, and CS with a minor in High-Performance Computing. You can find all my articles at https://josephmellor.xyz/articles/.