As usual, write in your diary as you do the following exercises. TeX submission required.
In the previous paragraph, read the "or" the way mathematicians do. It's inclusive. I'd really like you to do some of the problems with both, and compare the process. (I assume the answers will be the same.)
Note: this is not a programming question. Choose exercises that are essentially computations (some symbolic, some numerical), not proofs.
Sample question: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1247252/how-to-integrate-frac1x2-4x63-2-with-respect-to-x">
Can you do this in Mathematica? Can you get Mathematica to tell you how you could have done it yourself?
Find the orginal plaintext for each file. Document your steps and
thought process in your TeX solution. You should probably begin with
letter frequencies, perhaps digraphs. Use your
scramble.py
to do partial replacements as you
experiment.
The word structure will help. At some point you might be able to begin to make guesses based on content. The file names might help. (Matt should be able to decode his without doing any work at all.)
When you've solved a puzzle, find the source of the plain text.