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Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)

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Adi Shamir is an American person born on July 6, 1952. He is recognized in the collections of the Royal Society, the American Academy Arts Sciences, the Turing Award, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame, and the Israel Prize. His Erdős number is 2.

Shamir is the author of the work "The Fixedpoints of recursive definitions." Crossref data indicates he has five works. He is referenced by 521 other encyclopedia articles.

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Works
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  • The Fixedpoints of recursive definitions

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1994-11-08

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Key facts

Born
( 1952-07-06 ) July 6, 1952 (age 73) , Tel Aviv , Israel
Education
Tel Aviv University ( BSc ), Weizmann Institute of Science ( MSc , PhD )
Known for
RSA , Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme , differential cryptanalysis , Shamir's secret sharing
Awards
Erdős Prize (1983) Weizmann Prize (1987) Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) Israel Prize (2008) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2024)
Fields
Cryptography
Institutions
Weizmann Institute , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis
The fixedpoints of recursive definitions (1976)
Doctoral advisor
Zohar Manna
Doctoral students
Eli Biham , Uriel Feige , Amos Fiat
Website
www .wisdom .weizmann .ac .il /profile /scientists /shamir-profile .html

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Described at

Adi Shamir - Les associ�s �trangers �lus en 2015 - Brochure de pr�sentation

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Adi
Gender
male
Citizenship
Israel
Place of birth
Tel Aviv
Languages spoken
French
Doctoral advisor
Zohar Manna
Field of work
informatics
Image
Adi Shamir 2009.jpg
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name in native language
עדי שמיר
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Commons category
Adi Shamir
date of birth
1952-07-06
Erdős number
2
Sources (5)

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Encyclopedic overview

Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science. In 2002, Ron Rivest, Len Adleman, and he won the ACM Turing Award.

Biography

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