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Avi Wigderson
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
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- Partial Derivatives in Arithmetic Complexity and Beyond
- Mathematics and Computation
- Computational Complexity and Property Testing
- Computational complexity theory
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Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, and distributed computing. Wigderson received the Abel Prize in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science. He also received the 2023 Turing Award for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation.
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