Vinay Deolalikar, an extremely common & dull Indian name as such.
But that is what I would have said a few hours back on this name. What do I say now ? Well - this might well be the name of the most famous computer scientist of all times. Yes you read it right - of all times.
Why ? A guy with this name who works as a researcher at HP labs, Palo Alto, has claimed that he has a proof to establish that P!=NP. What it means is that if this is true, not only he takes home 1 million $, THE most difficult & important problem of computer science would be solved .
His paper is awful 103 pages long & a preliminary version can be found here.This only brings one name to my mind- Andrew Wiles ! If you don't know why- well you don't deserve to be reading this blog !
You know what is startling ? This guy was not even a computer scientist. He was an electric engineering major from IITB only. Even his PhD was in electrical engineering. Though on his homepage, he describes himself as a mathematician.
It would be a long stick in the ass of all computer scientists of this world if an inter-disciplinary researcher solves the hardest nut.
Plus its cool that he was born & brought up in Delhi & he passed out of a university which is the nearest kin to mine.(IIT Delhi).
I am so excited.
Y0 baby. C0de monkey is jumping restlessly. :)
hi dis is an interesting text . Srry to say that i dont know Andrew Wiles , but im very much interested is
ReplyDeleteprogramming . please suggest some books abt number theory and else books to improve prog skill , rather i should say algo developing skils .