Monday, February 4, 2008 - 4:15pm
Haverford College
Bryn Mawr College
Park Science Bldg - Room 328
Tea will be served at 3:45 pm in Park 355
Every function from a finite field to itself is a polynomial. What image size do we expect for these functions? How does the degree determine the image size? How might we construct polynomials with a particular image size?