Andrei Leonovich Toom (in

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: Андрей Леонович Тоом), also known as André Toom, (1942 in

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– 2022 in

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) was a

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known for the Toom–Cook algorithm and Toom's rule. Toom was a retired professor of the

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department at

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in Brazil. Toom died of prolonged illness in New York, September 2022. Toom was a student of

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; ; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as p ...

. His father was the Russian-Estonian poet Leon Toom ( ru).

References

Andrei Toom's personal website Andrei Toom's Curriculum Vitae (English)Andrei Toom's Curriculum Vitae (Portuguese)
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