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Re:Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good... by sfriedr on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @09:11AM (#31491575)
That's not quite true, as there are overlaps. To name just one big topic: Pseudorandom number generators. Here you have a (number) theory, including things like finite fields, to generate and understand deterministic numeric sequences, but also a lot of statistical methods tonassess whether these "look" random. Knuth has an entire chspter on these.

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