Mathematician:Leonard Max Adleman

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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

Definitions of concepts named for Leonard Max Adleman can be found here.


Publications

  • 1994: Molecular Computation of Solutions To Combinatorial Problems