Stephen Arthur Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to complexity theory and proof complexity. He is a university professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardGerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering 1 AwardOfficer of the Order of Canada 1 AwardFellow of the Royal Society 1 AwardFellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1 AwardBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 1 Connections
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Stephen Cook improved Andrei Toom's fast multiplication algorithm in his 1966 doctoral thesis at Harvard.
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Stephen Arthur Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity.
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December 14, 1939
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