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"Avi Wigderson, Co-Winner of the Abel Prize, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters"
"Avi Wigderson, Co-Winner of the Abel Prize, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters"
"Avi Wigderson's new 440-page book, Mathematics and Computation: A Theory Revolutionizing Technology and Science (Princeton University Press, October 2019), lays out a commanding overview of the theory of computing and argues for its central role in human thought."---Allyn Jackson, Communications of the ACM
"This must-read book provides a high-level, enjoyable overview of numerous parts of mathematics that are related to computation in general, and computational complexity in particular."
Avi Wigderson is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is a recipient of the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, and the Abel Prize, widely considered to be the highest recognition of impact in mathematics.