Alexander Razborov
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| Alexander Razborov | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 16, 1963 Belovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | USA, Russia |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Sergei Adian |
| Known for | group theory, logic in computer science, theoretical computer science |
| Notable awards | Nevanlinna Prize (1990) Gödel Prize (2007) David P. Robbins Prize (2013) |
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Razborov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Разбо́ров; born February 16, 1963), sometimes known as Sasha Razborov, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and computational theorist.
Research
In his best known work, joint with Steven Rudich, he introduced the notion of natural proofs, a class of strategies used to prove fundamental lower bounds in computational complexity. In particular, Razborov and Rudich showed that, under the assumption that certain kinds of one-way functions exist, such proofs cannot give a resolution of the P = NP problem, so new techniques will be required in order to solve this question.
Awards
- Nevanlinna Prize (1990) for introducing the "approximation method" in proving Boolean circuit lower bounds of some essential algorithmic problems,[1]
- Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2000)[2][3]
- David P. Robbins Prize for the paper “On the minimal density of triangles in graphs” (Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 17 (2008), no. 4, 603–618), and for introducing a new powerful method, flag algebras, to solve problems in extremal combinatorics
- Gödel Prize (2007, with Steven Rudich) for the paper "Natural Proofs."[4][5]
- Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor (2008) in the Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago.
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See also
- Avi Wigderson
- Circuit complexity
- Free group
- Natural proofs
- One-way function
- Pseudorandom function family
- Resolution (logic)
Notes
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External links
- Alexander Razborov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Alexander Razborov's Home Page.
- All-Russian Mathematical Portal: Persons: Razborov Alexander Alexandrovich.
- Biography sketch in the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.
- Curricula Vitae at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago.
- DBLP: Alexander A. Razborov.
- Alexander Razborov's results at the International Mathematical Olympiad
- MathSciNet: "Items authored by Razborov, A. A."
- The Work of A.A. Razborov – an article by László Lovász in the Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto, Japan, 1990.
Categories:
- Articles containing Russian-language text
- 1963 births
- 20th-century mathematicians
- 21st-century mathematicians
- Gödel Prize laureates
- Nevanlinna Prize laureates
- Living people
- Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Moscow State University alumni
- Russian computer scientists
- Russian mathematicians
- Soviet computer scientists
- Soviet mathematicians
- Theoretical computer scientists
- International Mathematical Olympiad participants
- Tarski lecturers
