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Stephen Cook

Also Known As Stephen Arthur Cook · Stephen A. Cook · S. A. Cook
Theory of Computation

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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Birth Year
1939 1
Birth Date
1939-12-14 2
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Invented

Toom-Cook Multiplication, Algorithms

Stephen Cook improved Andrei Toom's fast multiplication algorithm in his 1966 doctoral thesis at Harvard.

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1. Wikidata: Stephen Cook
  • Wikidata Q62870, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
  • Wikidata Q62870 P569 (date of birth)
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2. Wikipedia: Stephen Cook
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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.
  • Infobox, Born
    December 14, 1939
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Stephen Cook (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Stephen Arthur Cook
    Stephen Arthur Cook
  • Wikidata P166: Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.
  • Wikidata P166: Officer of the Order of Canada
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Officer of the Order of Canada.
  • Wikidata P166: Gödel Lecturer
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Gödel Lecturer.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • Wikidata P166: Turing Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Turing Award.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: John L. Synge Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): John L. Synge Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
  • Wikidata P166: CRM-Fields-PIMS prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.
  • Wikidata P166: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Order of Ontario
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Order of Ontario.
  • Wikidata alias: Stephen A. Cook
    Stephen A. Cook
  • Wikidata alias: S. A. Cook
    S. A. Cook
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