CRYPTICS by Shiva Kintali - Kickstarter / First Edition Signed

  
Cryptics is a hard science fiction novel and a technological thriller aimed at introducing some of the most amazing concepts of cryptography, blockchain, zero-knowledge proofs, artificial intelligence and mathematics in a fun, exciting and a memorable way. It is a story of five middle school students, who meet at a talk given by Dr.

Shiva Kintali, a billionaire mathematician and a technologist. The students compete with some of the best cryptographers, cypherpunks, mathematicians, coders and hackers of this generation.

In the largest global treasure hunt ever. In the history of humankind. Shiva Kintali is a Mathematician, Cryptographer, Theoretical Computer Scientist and a Game-Theorist. He is a frequent public speaker on Blockchain, Cryptography, Artificial Intelligence and Game theory and their socio-economic and cultural impact. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California and B-Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.