Martin Fürer is a Swiss Computer Scientist and a professor of Computer Science at

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. He is mostly known for his work on fast integer multiplication.

Research and career

One of Fürer's notable results is his fast integer multiplication algorithm STOC presented in 2007 and published in 2009 (). His main research is on

Graph Theory In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of ''graph (discrete mathematics), graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of ''Vertex (graph ...

Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms, Fixed Parameter Tractable Algorithm, and Computational Complexity. He obtained his PhD in

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from ETH Zurich in 1978 under supervision of Ernst P. Specker and has been a faculty member at

since 1987. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications and Information and Computation.

Selected publications

References

Living people Swiss computer scientists Pennsylvania State University faculty ETH Zurich alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{compu-scientist-stub