Mathematician:Leonard Max Adleman

Mathematician
American cryptographer and software engineer, best known for his involvement in the creation of the RSA algorithm.

Successfully used DNA as a computation technique.

Supposed to have coined the term virus in the context of computer programs.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: December 31, 1945 in San Francisco, California, US

Creations

 * RSA Algorithm (with and )
 * Adleman-Pomerance-Rumely Primality Test (with and )

Publications



 * 1994: Molecular Computation of Solutions To Combinatorial Problems