Marko Petkovšek is a
Slovenian mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
, born: 1955, working mainly in
symbolic computation.
He is a professor of
discrete
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and
computational mathematics
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at the
University of Ljubljana
The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students.
History Beginnings
Although certain ...
. He completed his Ph.D. at
Carnegie Mellon University
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under the supervision of
Dana Scott
Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, C ...
. He is best known for
Petkovšek's algorithm. Together with
Herbert Wilf
Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylv ...
and
Doron Zeilberger
Doron Zeilberger (דורון ציילברגר, born 2 July 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics.
Education and career
He received his doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1976, ...
he wrote the book ''
A = B
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''.
External links
"A = B"*
1955 births
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Living people
21st-century Slovenian mathematicians
University of Ljubljana faculty
20th-century Slovenian mathematicians
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