Andrew Odlyzko: Biography

Andrew Odlyzko is a mathematician who is the head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center.

 

In the field of mathematics he has published extensively on analytic number theory, computational number theory, cryptography, algorithms and computational complexity, combinatorics, probability, and error-correcting codes. In the early 1970s, he was a co-author of one of the founding papers of the modern umbral calculus.

 

More recently, he has worked on communication networks, electronic publishing, and electronic commerce.

 

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