Andrew Odlyzko: Recent Papers

• J. M. W. Turner, a celebrated painter and unrecognized financial arbitrageur, A. Odlyzko. Financial History Magazine, No. 155, Fall 2025, pp. 38-42. [online journal version]
  [PDF] [SSRN copy], extended version, with more details and references.

• The 1825 crisis and Bank of England as Lender of Last Resort, A. Odlyzko. Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, special issue on the crisis of 1825, to appear. [preprint, PDF] [SSRN copy]

• Some underestimated benefits of the cryptocurrency mania, A. Odlyzko. ACM Ubiquity, October 2025, pp. 1-8. [online journal version]

• Trust in science and mathematics, J. Johnson and A. Odlyzko. ACM Ubiquity, June 2022, pp. 1-9. [online journal version]

• The railway mania of the 1860s, A. Odlyzko, pp. 105-119 in Early Railways 7: Papers from the Seventh International Early Railways Conference, J. Liffen and S. K. Jones, eds., Early Railways Conference Committee, 2022. [chapter reprint, PDF] [preprint, PDF]

• The railway mania of the 1860s and financial innovation, A. Odlyzko. [preprint, PDF]

• An undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is: Bubbles and gullibility, A. Odlyzko. Financial History, no. 132, Winter 2020, pp. 16-19. [published article, PDF] [preprint, PDF, fewer illustrations, but URLs for sources] [full issue of magazine]

• Isaac Newton and the perils of the financial South Sea, A. Odlyzko. Physics Today, vol. 73, no. 7, July 2020, pp. 30-36. [published article, PDF] [preprint, longer but no illustrations, PDF]

• Bagehot's giant bubble failure, A. Odlyzko. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 31, no. 5, 2024, pp. 798-841. (In special issue, Walter Bagehot and Lombard Street (1873): A 150-Year Retrospective.) [preprint, PDF]
  [earlier version, PDF], with less background on the British economy of the 1860s, but much more material about Bagehot as an expert on the financial markets, and on his slow recognition of the bubble that was developing.

• Cybersecurity is not very important, A. Odlyzko. ACM Ubiquity, June 2019, pp. 1-23. [online journal version] [preprint, PDF]

• Dionysius Lardner, the denigrated sage of early railways, A. Odlyzko, pp. 39-58 in Early Main Line Railways 2: Papers from the Second International Early Main Line Railways Conference, M. Chrimes, ed., CPI Group, 2019. [preprint, PDF]

• Isaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, and the dynamics of financial bubbles, A. Odlyzko. Financial History, no. 124, Winter 2018, pp. 18-21. [published article, PDF] [full issue of magazine]

• Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble, A. Odlyzko. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, vol. 73, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 25-59. [online journal version] [preprint, PDF]

• In praise of spaghetti code, A. Odlyzko. ACM Ubiquity blog, June 2017. [online Ubiquity version]

• The glorious promise of the post-truth world, A. Odlyzko. ACM Ubiquity, March 2017. [online journal version]

• Novel market inefficiencies from early Victorian times, A. Odlyzko. Financial History Review, vol. 24, no. 2, Aug. 2017, pp. 143-165. [preprint, PDF]

• What would surprise early Victorian market players if they came alive today?, A. Odlyzko. LSE Business Review blog, Sept. 30, 2016. [LSE Business Review]

• Financialization of the early Victorian economy and the London Stock Exchange, A. Odlyzko. [preprint, PDF]

• Search for ultraflat polynomials with plus and minus one coefficients, A. Odlyzko, pp. 39-55 in Connections in Discrete Mathematics: A Celebration of the Work of Ron Graham, S. Butler, J. Cooper, and G. Hurlbert, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. [preprint, PDF]

• The growth rate and nature of Internet traffic, A. Odlyzko. Transactions on Internet Research, special issue on "New developments on the Web," vol. 12, no. 1, January 2016. [preprint, PDF] [online journal version] [online journal issue]

• Genome-scale metabolic network validation of Shewanella oneidensis using transposon insertion frequency analysis, H. Yang, E. W. Krumholz, E. D. Brutinel, N. P. Palani, M. J. Sadowsky, A. M. Odlyzko, J. A. Gralnick, and I. G. L. Libourel, PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 10, no. 9, Sept. 2014, e1003848. [online journal version]

• The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency of early railway networks, A. Odlyzko. OEconomia, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 157-192. [online journal version] [preprint, PDF]

• The early British railway system, the Casson counterfactual, and the effectiveness of central planning, A. Odlyzko. Essays in Economic & Business History, vol. 34, 2016, pp. 60-94. [online journal version] [preprint, PDF]

• The past, evolving present and future of discrete logarithm, A. Joux, A. Odlyzko, and C. Pierrot, Open Problems in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, C. K. Koc, ed., Springer, 2014, pp. 5-36. [preprint, PDF]

• Collaborating with the enemy on network management, C. Hall, D. Yu, Z.-L. Zhang, J. Stout, A. Odlyzko, A. W. Moore, J. Camp, K. Benton, and R. Anderson, Security Protocols XXII, B. Christianson, J. Malcolm, V. Matyas, P. Svenda, F. Stajano, and J. Anderson, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 8809, Springer, 2014, pp. 154-162. [preprint, PDF]

• Economically irrational pricing of nineteenth century British government bonds, A. Odlyzko. Financial History Review, vol. 23, no. 3, Dec. 2016, pp. 277-302. [preprint, PDF]

• Supplementary material for `Economically irrational pricing of 19th century British government bonds', A. Odlyzko. [preprint, PDF]

• Open Access and the evolution of scholarly communication, A. Odlyzko. Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, no. 91, March 2014, pp. 41-42. [preprint, text] [entire issue, online]

• Are libraries and Open Access becoming irrelevant?, A. Odlyzko. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 61, no. 4, April 2014, pp. 390-392. [online version]

• Will smart pricing finally take off?, A. Odlyzko. Pages 3-33 in Smart Data Pricing, S. Sen, C. Joe-Wong, S. Ha, and M. Chiang, eds., Wiley, 2014. [preprint, PDF]

• Turing and computations in pure maths, A. Odlyzko. Cybertalk, no. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 40-41. [preprint, PDF] [online version of journal issue]

• Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce, A. Odlyzko. Evaluation Review, vol. 39, no. 1, Feb. 2015, pp. 130-163. [preprint, PDF] [online journal version]

• The Railway Mania: Fraud, disappointed expectations, and the modern economy, A. Odlyzko. J. Railway & Canal Historical Society, no. 215, Nov. 2012, pp. 2-12. [preprint, PDF]

• Web history and economics, A. Odlyzko. Computer Networks, vol. 56, no. 18, 2012, pp. 3886-3890. [preprint, PDF]

• Know Your Limits: Considering the Role of Data Caps and Usage Based Billing in Internet Access Service, A. Odlyzko, B. St. Arnaud, E. Stallman, and M. Weinberg, Public Knowledge, May 2012. [white paper, PDF]

• Crushing national debts, economic revolutions, and extraordinary popular delusions, A. Odlyzko. [PDF]

• The volume and value of information, A. Odlyzko. International Journal of Communication, vol. 6, 2012. [online journal version, PDF]

• Discrete logarithms over finite fields, A. Odlyzko. In Handbook of Finite Fields, G. Mullen and D. Panario, eds., CRC Press, 2013, pp. 393-401. [preprint, PDF]

• Charles Mackay's own extraordinary popular delusions and the Railway Mania, A. Odlyzko. [PDF]

• The collapse of the Railway Mania, the development of capital markets, and the forgotten role of Robert Lucas Nash, A. Odlyzko. Accounting History Review (formerly Accounting, Business & Financial History), vol. 21, no. 3, Nov. 2011, pp. 309-345. An extended preprint, entitled The collapse of the Railway Mania, the development of capital markets, and Robert Lucas Nash, a forgotten pioneer of accounting and financial analysis, is available: [preprint, PDF]

• Alan Turing and the Riemann zeta function, D. A. Hejhal and A. M. Odlyzko. In Alan Turing - His Work and Impact, S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen, eds., Elsevier, 2013, pp. 265-279. [PDF]

• Numerical study of the derivative of the Riemann zeta function at zeros, G. A. Hiary and A. M. Odlyzko, Commentarii Mathematici Universitatis Sancti Pauli, vol. 60, no. 1-2, 2011, pp. 47-60. [PDF]

• Flat versus metered rates, bundling, and "bandwidth hogs," P. Nabipay, A. Odlyzko, and Z.-L. Zhang. Proceedings of NetEcon 11: 6th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation. [NetEcon 11 program, with papers] [preprint, PDF]

• Neutrality and non-neutrality, from the past to the future, A. Odlyzko. Intermedia, vol. 39, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 4-6. [text]

• Why Internet pricing is on ongoing tragi-comedy, A. Odlyzko. Internet Evolution, December 22, 2010. [text] [Internet Evolution version at Wayback Machine]

• The manifold problems of technology forecasting, A. Odlyzko. Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, Fall 2010, p. 7. [Key Reporter online version] [preprint, txt]

• The zeta function on the critical line: Numerical evidence for moments and random matrix theory models, G. A. Hiary and A. M. Odlyzko, Math. Comp., vol. 81, no. 279, July 2012, pp. 1723-1752. [preprint, PDF]

• Bubbles, gullibility, and other challenges for economics, psychology, sociology, and information sciences, A. Odlyzko. First Monday, vol. 15, no. 9, Sept. 2010. [PDF] [First Monday version]

• This time is different: An example of a giant, wildly speculative, and successful investment mania, A. Odlyzko. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 10, issue 1, 2010, article 60. [BEJEAP version] [preprint, PDF]

• Collective hallucinations and inefficient markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s, A. Odlyzko. [PDF] [PRC, for Kindle and related devices]

• Providing security with insecure systems, A. Odlyzko. Extended abstract. WiSec'10: Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, ACM, 2010, pp. 87-88. [PDF]

• Interactions, competition and innovation in a service-oriented Internet: An economic model, Z.-L. Zhang, P. Nabipay, A. Odlyzko, and R. Guerin, INFOCOM 2010 Mini-conference Proceedings, IEEE, 2010. [PDF]

• The Internet and past and future communications revolutions, A. Odlyzko. IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2010, pp. 20-21. [PDF]

• Social networks and mathematical models: A research commentary on `Critical mass and willingness to pay for social networks' by J. Christopher Westland, A. Odlyzko. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, vol. 9, 2010, pp. 26-28. [PDF]

• Technology predictions: Intelligence and brute force, A. Odlyzko. ON Magazine, No. 4, 2009, pp. 48-50. [text] [ON Magazine issue]

• The delusions of net neutrality, A. Odlyzko. Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, 2008. [PDF]

• The Internet's role in aggravating and alleviating the energy crises, A. Odlyzko. Internet Evolution, April 8, 2008. [extended preprint, text] [Internet Evolution version at Wayback Machine]

• Threats to the Internet: Too much or too little growth?, A. Odlyzko. Internet Evolution, February 25, 2008. [text] [Internet Evolution version at Wayback Machine]

• Network neutrality, search neutrality, and the never-ending conflict between efficiency and fairness in markets, A. Odlyzko. Review of Network Economics, vol. 8, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 40-60. [RNE full paper]

  Preprint: [PDF]

• Digital rights management: Desirable, inevitable, and almost irrelevant, A. Odlyzko. Extended abstract. DRM'07: Proc. 2007 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, ACM, 2007, pp. 39-40. [PDF]

• Privacy and the clandestine evolution of ecommerce, A. Odlyzko. To appear in Proceedings ICEC2007: Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, ACM, 2007. [PDF]

• Too expensive to meter: The influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication, David Levinson and Andrew Odlyzko. In special issue on Networks: Modeling and control, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, vol. 366, no. 1872, 2008, pp. 2033-2046. [PDF]

  A more detailed preprint with the same title: [PDF]

• Metcalfe's Law is Wrong, B. Briscoe, A. Odlyzko, and B. Tilly, IEEE Spectrum, July 2006, pp. 26-31. [online version]

  An earlier and more detailed preprint: A refutation of Metcalfe's Law and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections, A. Odlyzko and B. Tilly. [PDF]

• Economic costs of toll access, A. M. Odlyzko. Pages 32-35 in Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, Neil Jacobs, ed., Chandos, 2006. [Chapter, PDF]

  [Book information]

• Technobubbles: Ancient, recent, and future, A. Odlyzko. Om Malik's blog, Five Years After the Bubble series. [text] [Om Malik's blog]

• Finding a voice: Learning from history, A. M. Odlyzko. Pages 58-64 in Connected Homes, F. Gil de Bernabe y Varela, ed., Cisco, 2004. [text] [online version of Connected Homes book]

• Index calculation attacks on RSA signature and encryption, J.-S. Coron, Y. Desmedt, D. Naccache, A. Odlyzko, and J. P. Stern, Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, vol. 38, no. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 41-53. [PDF]

• Telecom dogmas and spectrum allocations, A. M. Odlyzko. Written for the Wireless Unleashed blog. [PDF] [Wireless Unleashed blog]

• Layer architectures and regulation in telecommunications, A. M. Odlyzko. Pages 16-19 in New Millennium Research Council report, Free Ride: Deficiencies of the MCI 'Layers' Policy Model and the Need for Principles that Encourage Competition in the New IP World, July 2004. [preprint, text] [full NMRC report, PDF]

• Why electronic publishing means people will pay different prices, A. M. Odlyzko. Nature web forum, Access to the literature: The debate continues, March 25, 2004. [preprint, text] [Nature version]

• The evolution of price discrimination in transportation and its implications for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko, Review of Network Economics, vol. 3, no. 3, September 2004, pp. 323-346. [RNE full paper]

  This paper is based on a more extensive manuscript, presented at TPRC 2004, Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation, A. M. Odlyzko. [PDF]

• Privacy, economics, and price discrimination on the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. ICEC2003: Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, N. Sadeh, ed., ACM, 2003, pp. 355-366. Reprinted on pp. 187-211 of Economics of Information Security, L. Jean Camp and S. Lewis, eds., Kluwer, 2004. Also reprinted on pp. 39-61 of The Icfaian Journal of Management Research, vol. 3, no. 12, December 2004. [PDF]

• Data networks are lightly utilized, and will stay that way, A. M. Odlyzko, Review of Network Economics, 2 (no. 3), September 2003, pp. 210-237. [RNE full paper]

  Original 1998 preprint: [Abstract] [PDF]

• The many paradoxes of broadband, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday, 8 (no. 9), September 2003. [PDF] [First Monday version]

• Internet traffic growth: Sources and implications, A. M. Odlyzko. Optical Transmission Systems and Equipment for WDM Networking II, B. B. Dingel, W. Weiershausen, A. K. Dutta, and K.-I. Sato, eds., Proc. SPIE, vol. 5247, 2003, pp. 1-15. [PDF]

• The unsolvable privacy problem and its implications for security technologies, A. M. Odlyzko. Information Security and Privacy: 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, R. Safavi-Naini and J. Seberry, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2727, Springer, 2003, pp. 51-54. [PDF] [text]

• The case against micropayments, A. M. Odlyzko. Financial Cryptography: 7th International Conference, FC 2003, R. N. Wright, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2742, Springer, 2003, pp. 77-83. [PDF] [text]

• Economics, psychology, and sociology of security, A. M. Odlyzko. Financial Cryptography: 7th International Conference, FC 2003, R. N. Wright, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2742, Springer, 2003, pp. 182-189. [PDF] [text]

• False hopes, A. M. Odlyzko. Red Herring, no. 123, March 2003, p. 31. [text, with corrigendum]

• Peer and non-peer review, A. M. Odlyzko. Peer Review in Health Sciences, 2nd ed., F. Godlee and T. Jefferson, eds., BMJ Books, 2003, pp. 309-311. [text]

• Roxane Googin's predictions and the telecom world, A. M. Odlyzko. The Cook Report on the Internet, vol. 11, no. 1-2, April-May 2002, pp. 53-58. [text]

• Comments on the Larry Roberts and Caspian Networks study of Internet traffic growth, A. M. Odlyzko. The Cook Report on the Internet, Dec. 2001, pp. 12-15. [text]

• Talk, Talk, Talk: So who needs streaming video on a phone? The killer app for 3G may turn out to be--surprise--voice calls, A. M. Odlyzko. Forbes, August 20, 2001, p. 28. [text] [Forbes version]

• Internet TV: Implications for the long distance network, A. M. Odlyzko. In Internet Television, E. Noam, J. Groebel, and D. Gerbarg, eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp. 9-18. [PDF] [text]

• Growth of the Internet, K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko. In Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV B: Systems and Impairments, I. P. Kaminow and T. Li, eds. Academic Press, 2002, pp. 17-56. [PDF]

• Mathematics, cryptology, and technology, A. M. Odlyzko. Foreward to Public-Key Cryptography and Computational Number Theory, K. Alster, J. Urbanowicz, and H. C. Williams, eds., Walter de Gruyter, 2001, pp. ix-x. [preprint, text]

• The Public Library of Science and the ongoing revolution in scholarly communication, A. M. Odlyzko. Nature web forum, Future e-access to the primary literature, Sept. 18, 2001. [preprint, text] [Nature version]

• The myth of Internet time, A. M. Odlyzko. Technology Review, 104(3) (April 2001), pp. 92-93. [preprint, text] [Technology Review version]

• Internet growth: Myth and reality, use and abuse, A. M. Odlyzko. iMP: Information Impacts Magazine, November 2000. [PDF] [iMP version at Wayback Machine]

  An updated and slightly revised version has appeared in J. Computer Resource Management, issue 102, Spring 2001, pp. 23-27. [PDF]

• The future of scientific communication, A. M. Odlyzko. Access to Publicly Financed Research: The Global Research Village III, Amsterdam 2000, P. Wouters and P. Schroeder, eds., NIWI, 2000, pp. 273-278. [Abstract] [PDF]

• The 10^22-nd zero of the Riemann zeta function, A. M. Odlyzko. Dynamical, Spectral, and Arithmetic Zeta Functions, M. van Frankenhuysen and M. L. Lapidus, eds., Amer. Math. Soc., Contemporary Math. series, no. 290, 2001, pp. 139-144. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Internet growth: Is there a "Moore's Law" for data traffic?, K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko. Handbook of Massive Data Sets, J. Abello, P. M. Pardalos, and M. G. C. Resende, eds., Kluwer, 2002, pp. 47-93. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Content is not king, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday 6(2) (February 2001), http://firstmonday.org/. [Abstract] [PDF] [First Monday version]

  Internet pricing and the history of communications, A. M. Odlyzko. Computer Networks 36 (2001), pp. 493-517. Also to be published in Internet Services, Lee McKnight and John Wroclawski, eds., MIT Press, 2001. [Abstract] [PDF] An extended abstract, entitled Internet pricing in light of the history of communication has appeared in Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks, S. Fahmy and K. Park, eds., Proc. SPIE, vol. 4526 (2001), pp. 237-243. [Abstract] [PDF] An even more abbreviated version has appeared under the title Should flat-rate Internet pricing continue?, IT Professional 2 (no. 5) (Sept.-Oct. 2000), pp. 48-51. [IT Pro version]

  Both of the above papers are derived from a larger and more comprehensive work:

  The history of communications and its implications for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Cryptographic abundance and pervasive computing, A. M. Odlyzko. iMP: Information Impacts Magazine, June 2000. [text] [iMP version at Wayback Machine]

• The rapid evolution of scholarly communication, A. M. Odlyzko. Learned Publishing, 15(1) (Jan. 2002), pp. 7-19. Also in Economics and usage of digital libraries: byting the bullet, W. Lougee and J. MacKie-Mason, eds., University of Michigan University Library, 2008. [Abstract] [PDF] [Word] [Learned Publishing version] [version in Lougee and MacKie-Mason book] [entire Lougee and MacKie-Mason book]

• The current state and likely evolution of the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. Proc. Globecom'99, IEEE, 1999, pp. 1869-1875. [Abstract] [PDF]

• The stupid network: Essential yet unattainable, A. M. Odlyzko. ACM netWorker, 3(4) (Dec. 1999), pp. 36-37. [text] [netWorker version]

• An improved bound for the de Bruijn-Newman constant, A. M. Odlyzko, Numerical Algorithms, 25 (2000), pp. 293-303. [Abstract] [PDF]

• The visible problems of the invisible computer: A skeptical look at information appliances, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday 4(9) (September 1999), http://firstmonday.org/. [Abstract] [PDF] [text] [First Monday version]

• Discrete logarithms: The past and the future, A. M. Odlyzko, Designs, Codes, and Cryptography 19 (2000), pp. 129-145. Reprinted in Towards a Quarter-Century of Public Key Cryptography, N. Koblitz, ed., Kluwer, 2000, pp. 59-75. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Abstracting and reviewing in the digital era, A. M. Odlyzko, NFAIS Newsletter 41 (no. 6) (June 1999), pp. 85, 90-92. [text]

• Paris Metro Pricing: The minimalist differentiated services solution, A. M. Odlyzko, Proc. 1999 Seventh International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS '99), IEEE, 1999, pp. 159-161. [PDF] [text]

  The above position paper is based on a more detailed paper:

  Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko, Proc. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'99), ACM, 1999, pp. 140-147. [Abstract] [PDF] [text]

  Both of the above papers are based on an earlier 1997 unpublished manuscript:

  A modest proposal for preventing Internet congestion, A. M. Odlyzko. [Abstract] [PDF] [text]

• Data networks are mostly empty and for good reason, A. M. Odlyzko, IT Professional 1 (no. 2) (March/April 1999), pp. 67-69. [IT Pro version] An early preprint, entitled The low utilization and high cost of data networks, is available here. [PDF] [text]

• Competition and cooperation: Libraries and publishers in the transition to electronic scholarly journals, A. M. Odlyzko. Journal of Electronic Publishing 4(4) (June 1999), in the online collection The Transition from Paper: Where are we Going and how will we get there?, R. S. Berry and A. S. Moffatt, eds., American Academy of Arts & Sciences, http://www.amacad.org/publications/trans.htm, and in J. Scholarly Publishing 30(4) (July 1999), pp. 163-185. [Abstract] [PDF] [text] [Word] [JEP version] [AAA&S collection version]

• The evolution of electronic scholarly communication, A. M. Odlyzko, pp. 3-4 in Science Editing and Information Management (Proc. Second Intern. AESE/CBE/EASE Joint Meeting, Sixth Intern. Conf. Geoscience Information, and Thirty-second Annual Meeting of Assoc. Earth Science Editors), C. J. Manson, ed., Geoscience Information Society, 1999. [text]

• On longest increasing subsequences in random permutations, A. M. Odlyzko and E. M. Rains, pp. 439-451 in Analysis, Geometry, Number Theory: The Mathematics of Leon Ehrenpreis, E. L. Grinberg, S. Berhanu, M. Knopp, G. Mendoza, and E. T. Quinto, eds., Amer. Math. Soc., Contemporary Math. #251, 2000. [Abstract] [PDF] [comments]

• The Internet and other networks: Utilization rates and their implications, A. M. Odlyzko, Information Economics & Policy 12 (2000), pp. 341-365. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Who should own scientific papers?, S. Bachrach, R. S. Berry, M. Blume, T. von Foerster, A. Fowler, P. Ginsparg, S. Heller, N. Kestner, A. Odlyzko, A. Okerson, R. Wigington, and A. Moffat, Science 281 (no. 5382) (Sept. 4, 1998), pp. 1459-1460. [HTML] [Science version]

• The future of money, A. M. Odlyzko. [text]

• The economics of the Internet: Utility, utilization, pricing, and Quality of Service, A. M. Odlyzko. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Smart and stupid networks: Why the Internet is like Microsoft, A. M. Odlyzko, ACM netWorker, 2(5) (Dec. 1998), pp. 38-46. [Abstract] [PDF] [text] [netWorker version]

• The size and growth rate of the Internet, K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko, First Monday 3(10) (October 1998), http://firstmonday.org/. [Abstract] [PDF] [First Monday version]

• Dynamic behavior of differential pricing and Quality of Service options for the Internet, P. C. Fishburn and A. M. Odlyzko, Proc. First Intern. Conf. on Information and Computation Economies (ICE-98), ACM Press, 1998, pp. 128-139. [Abstract] [PDF] Extended version in Decision Support Systems, 28 (2000), pp. 123-136: [PDF]

• Emerging Applications of Number Theory, D. A. Hejhal, J. Friedman, M. C. Gutzwiller, and A. M. Odlyzko, eds., Springer Verlag, 1999. [Preface, PDF] [Table of Contents, PDF]

• Connectedness, classes, and cycle index, E. A. Bender, P. J. Cameron, A. M. Odlyzko, and L. B. Richmond, Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing, 8 (1999), pp. 31-43. [PDF]

• The asymptotic number of set partitions with unequal block sizes, A. Knopfmacher, A. M. Odlyzko, B. Pittel, L. B. Richmond, D. Stark, G. Szekeres, and N. C. Wormald, Electronic J. Combinatorics 6(1) (1999), R2 (37pp.), http://www.combinatorics.org. [PDF] [EJC version]

• Attacks on Shamir's 'RSA for paranoids', H. Gilbert, D. Gupta, A. M. Odlyzko, and J.-J. Quisquater, Information Processing Letters 68 (1998), pp. 197-199. [PDF]

• Jumping champions, A. Odlyzko, M. Rubinstein, and M. Wolf, Experimental Math., 8 (no. 2) (1999), pp. 107-118. [PDF, 640 KB] [Exp. Math. version]

• Outsourcing of research: Change and stability, A. M. Odlyzko, in Trends in Industrial Innovation: Industry Perspectives and Policy Implications, 1997 Forum Proceedings, Sigma Xi, 1998, pp. 17-22. [text]

• The slow evolution of electronic publishing, A. M. Odlyzko, in Electronic Publishing '97: New Models and Opportunities, A. J. Meadows and F. Rowland, eds., ICCC Press, 1997, pp. 4-18. [PDF] [Word] [text]

• Competitive pricing of information goods: Subscription pricing versus pay-per-use, P. C. Fishburn and A. M. Odlyzko, Economic Theory 13 (1999), pp. 447-470. [PDF]

• Silicon dreams and silicon bricks: the continuing evolution of libraries, A. M. Odlyzko, Library Trends 46 (no. 1) (Summer 1997), pp. 152-167. [PDF] [text]

• Electronics and the future of education, A. M. Odlyzko. On the Horizon 5(4) (July/August 1997), pp. 8-9. Extended version in the online collection The Transition from Paper: Where are we Going and how will we get there?, R. S. Berry and A. S. Moffatt, eds., American Academy of Arts & Sciences, http://www.amacad.org/publications/trans.htm. [text] [extended version] [extended version in AAA&S collection]

• The economics of electronic journals, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday 2(8) (August 1997), http://firstmonday.org/, and Journal of Electronic Publishing 4(1) (September 1998). Definitive version on pp. 380-393 in Technology and Scholarly Communication, R. Ekman and R. E. Quandt, eds., Univ. Calif. Press, 1999. [PDF] [text] [Word] [First Monday version] [JEP version]

• An efficient micropayment system based on probabilistic polling, S. Jarecki and A. M. Odlyzko, in Financial Cryptography, R. Hirschfeld, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1318, Springer, 1997, pp. 173-191. [PDF]

• Fine spectra and limit laws II. First-order 0-1 laws, S. Burris, K. Compton, A. Odlyzko, and B. Richmond, Canad. J. Math. 49 (1997), pp. 641-652. [PDF]

• Fixed fee versus unit pricing for information goods: competition, equilibria, and price wars, P. C. Fishburn, A. M. Odlyzko, and R. C. Siders, First Monday 2(7) (July 1997), http://firstmonday.org/. Definitive version on pp. 167-189 in Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property, B. Kahin and H. R. Varian, eds., MIT Press, 2000. [PDF] [Word] [First Monday version]

• An optimal acceptance policy for an urn scheme, R. W. Chen, A. Zame, A. M. Odlyzko, and L. A. Shepp, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 11 (1997), pp. 183-195. [PDF]

• Monotonic subsequences in dimensions higher than one, A. M. Odlyzko, J. B. Shearer, and R. C. Siders, Electronic J. Combinatorics 4(2) (1997), R14 (9pp.), http://www.combinatorics.org. [PDF] [EJC version] [comments]

• The bumpy road of electronic commerce, A. M. Odlyzko, in WebNet 96 - World Conf. Web Soc. Proc., H. Maurer, ed., AACE, 1996, pp. 443-456. [PDF] [text] [WebNet online proceedings]

• Computer algebra and its applications: Where are we going?, A. M. Odlyzko, in Beherrschung von Informationssystemen, H. C. Mayr, ed., R. Oldenbourg, 1996, pp. 33-41. [PDF]

• On the road to electronic publishing, A. M. Odlyzko, Euromath Bull., 2 (no. 1) (1996), pp. 49-60. [text]

• A nonlinear equation and its application to nearest neighbor spacings for zeros of the zeta function and eigenvalues of random matrices, P. J. Forrester and A. M. Odlyzko, in Organic Mathematics, J. Borwein, P. Borwein, L. Jorgenson, and R. Corless, eds., Amer. Math. Soc. 1997, pp. 239-250. Electronic version available at http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/OMP/. [PDF] A condensed version, GUE eigenvalues and Riemann zeta function zeros: A non-linear equation for a new statistic has appeared in Phys. Rev. E 54 (1996), pp. R4493-R4495. [PDF]

• Short proofs for nondivisibility of sparse polynomials under the extended Riemann hypothesis, D. Yu. Grigoriev, M. Karpinski, and A. M. Odlyzko, Fund. Inform. 28 (1996), pp. 297-301. Preliminary version on pp. 117-122 in Proc. Intern. Symp. Symbolic Algebraic Computation: ISSAC '92, P. S. Wang (ed.), ACM Press, (1992). [PDF]

• The future of research: Decline or transformation?, A. M. Odlyzko, in Proc. 19th Annual Meeting, C. H. McGruder, III, and W. E. Collins, eds., Nat. Soc. Black Physicists, 1996, pp. 89-93. [text]

• We still need unfettered research, A. M. Odlyzko, Research*Technology Management, 39 (no. 1) (Jan.-Feb. 1996), pp. 9-11. [text]

• The decline of unfettered research, A. M. Odlyzko, version of October 4, 1995. [PDF] [text] [Pantaneto Forum, issue 56, October 2014]

• Analytic methods in asymptotic enumeration, A. M. Odlyzko, Discrete Math. 153 (1996), pp. 229-238. [PDF]

• Tragic loss or good riddance? The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals, A. M. Odlyzko, full version in Intern. J. Human-Computer Studies (formerly Intern. J. Man-Machine Studies) 42 (1995), pp. 71-122, and in the electronic J. Univ. Comp. Sci., pilot issue, vol. 0, 1994. Condensed version in Notices Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 42 (Jan. 1995), pp. 49-53, and reprinted in Deutsche Math. Ver. Mitteilungen, 1995 (no. 1), pp. 19-24, and, in a French traslation by D. Foata, Perte tragique ou bon debarras? La disparition imminente des revues savantes traditionnelles, in Gazette des mathematiciens, no. 63 (1995), pp. 41-52. It has also been reprinted, as part of an electronic discussion presentation, on pp. 63-73 of Scholarly Journals at the Crosroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing, A. S. Okerson and J. J. O'Donnell, eds., Assoc. Res. Lib. 1995 and on pp. 91-101 in Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier, Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby, eds., MIT Press, 1996. [text of full and condensed versions] [PDF of full version] [PDF of condensed version] [JUCS online version] [condensed AMS Notices version]

• Nonabelian sets with distinct k-sums, A. M. Odlyzko and W. D. Smith, Discrete Math. 146 (1995), pp. 169-177. [PDF]

• The future of integer factorization, A. M. Odlyzko, CryptoBytes (The technical newsletter of RSA Laboratories) 1 (no. 2) (1995), pp. 5-12. [PDF] [CryptoBytes issue]

• Pebbling a chessboard, F. R. K. Chung, R. L. Graham, J. A. Morrison, and A. M. Odlyzko, Amer. Math. Monthly 102 (1995), pp. 113-123. [PDF]

• Search for the maximum of a random walk, A. M. Odlyzko, Random Struct. Alg. 6 (1995), pp. 275-295. Short abstract in Adv. Appl. Prob. 24 (1992) p. 768. Extended abstract in Proc. 26-th ACM Symp. Theory Comp. (1994), pp. 336-345. [PDF]

• Asymptotic enumeration methods, A. M. Odlyzko, in Handbook of Combinatorics, vol. 2, R. L. Graham, M. Groetschel, and L. Lovasz, eds., Elsevier, 1995, pp. 1063-1229. [PDF, 1.1 MB]

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