Biography:Andrei Toom

Short description: Russian mathematician (1942–2022)

Andrei Toom in 2004

Andrei Leonovich Toom (in Russian: Андрей Леонович Тоом), also known as André Toom, (1942 Tashkent, Soviet Union - 2022 New York City , USA) was a mathematician known for the Toom–Cook algorithm and Toom's rule. Toom was a retired professor of the statistics department at Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Toom died of prolonged illness in New York,september 2022.

Toom was a student of Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.

References

• Andrei Toom's personal website
• Andrei Toom's Curriculum Vitae (English)
• Andrei Toom's Curriculum Vitae (Portuguese) (in Portuguese)
• Andrei Toom at the Mathematics Genealogy Project