Thursday, June 23, 2011

Pioneers in Algorithm Design and Analysis

Creator of Algorithms ( Father of Algebra )
( Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi )






Alan Turing
(Halting Problem , Turing Machine , Cryptanalysis of Enigma )




Euclid (Euclidean Algorithm)




Euler
( Great Mathematician ) 







Eratosthenes ( Sieve of Erastothenes Algorithm )
Algorithm to retrieve Prime numbers






Archimedes 
(Approximation of Pi )







Stephen C Kleene
(Church-Turing thesis )






John Von Neumann  
( Merge Sort , Game Theory , Middle Square Method )

 



James H Wilkinson
(Golub Wilkinson Algorithm and Floating point arithmetic)




Richard Karp




(Author of "Art of Computer Programming" Book Series) 






(Huffman Algorithm and Huffman Code )





Creator of Quick Sort 



Donald Shell ( Creator of Shell Sort )







Cooley and Tukey
(Cooley Tukey FFT Algorithm )






(Creators of RSA Algorithm )





(Creator of Dijkstra's Algorithm)




Petr Mitrichev 
( Great Algorithmist and Coder )







Suggestions are invited for addition of more algorithmic pioneers you know . Just leave a comment about the Algorithmic pioneer you want me to add in here.


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