Peter Shor
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 64 |
| Date of birth | August 14,1959 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | New York |
| United States | |
| Academic advisor | Frank Thomson Leighton |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Computer scientist | |
| Education | California Institute of Technology |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Tamalpais High School | |
| Awards | Gödel Prize |
| MacArthur Fellowship | |
| Nevanlinna Prize | |
| IMU Abacus Medal | |
| Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics | |
| Field | Computer science, applied mathematics |
| Doctor advisor | Tom Leighton |
| Thesi | bin packing |
| Known for | Shor's algorithm |
| Notable student | Mohsen Bahramgiri |
| Alan Wing Leung | |
| Nationality | American |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 629144 |
Peter Shor Life story
Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT. He is known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer.
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