Alan Cobham (mathematician)
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| Birthday |
4th November, 1927
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| Died |
28th June, 2011
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| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio
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| Occupation Text |
Theoretical computer scientist
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Alan Belmont Cobham (4 November 1927 – 28 June 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for (with Jack Edmonds) inventing the notion of polynomial time and the complexity class P, for Cobham's thesis stating that the problems that have practically-usable computer solutions are characterized by having polynomial time, and for Cobham's theorem on the sets of numbers that can be recognized by finite automata. He also did foundational work on automatic sequences, invented priority queues and studied them from the point of view of queueing theory, and wrote a program for playing contract bridge that was at the time (in the mid-1980s) one of the best in the world.
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