Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Брусенцо́в; 7 February 1925 in Kamenskoe,

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

– 4 December 2014) was a computer scientist, most famous for having built a (

balanced In telecommunications and professional audio, a balanced line or balanced signal pair is a circuit consisting of two conductors of the same type, both of which have equal impedances along their lengths and equal impedances to ground and to other ci ...

)

ternary computer A ternary computer, also called trinary computer, is one that uses ternary logic (i.e., base 3) instead of the more common binary system (i.e., base 2) in its calculations. This means it uses trits (instead of bits, as most computers do). Ty ...

Setun Setun (russian: Сетунь) was a computer developed in 1958 at Moscow State University. It was built under the leadership of Sergei Sobolev and Nikolay Brusentsov. It was the most modern ternary computer, using the balanced ternary numeral sys ...

, together with

Sergei Sobolev Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (russian: Серге́й Льво́вич Со́болев) H FRSE (6 October 1908 – 3 January 1989) was a Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. Sobolev introduc ...

in 1958. In 1970 he designed Setun 70, implementing principles which were later proposed for the RISC architecture independently. He died on 4 December 2014.НИКОЛАЙ ПЕТРОВИЧ БРУСЕНЦОВ (7 февраля 1925 – 4 декабря 2014)

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1925 births 2014 deaths People from Kamianske Russian computer scientists Russian inventors Soviet computer scientists Soviet military personnel of World War II Moscow State University faculty {{Compu-scientist-stub

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