Felipe Cucker

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Juan Felipe Cucker Farkas (* 1958 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who deals with the analysis of algorithms ( complexity theory ).

Cucker received his doctorate in 1986 at the same time at the University of Rennes I and the Universidad de Cantabria with Tomás Recio and Michel Coste (Funciones de Nash Sobre Variedades Algebraicas Afine). He is a professor at the City University of Hong Kong and at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona .

Cucker was a collaborator on Stephen Smale's project to develop a theory of complexity over the real numbers at Berkeley. Together with Peter Bürgisser, he was involved in the solution of one of the Smale problems (No. 17, see there) and he investigated, for example, mathematical models for the collective behavior of animals. He also published a book on art and mathematics and is concerned with learning theory.

He is on the board of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) and its chairman from 2008 to 2011. He was or is a member of the editorial board of the journals Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Managing Editor), Journal of complexity , SIAM Journal on Optimization and Theoretical Computer Science .

From 2017 to 2019 he is Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin with Peter Bürgisser .

Fonts

  • with Peter Bürgisser: Condition: The Geometry of Numerical Algorithms, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 349, Springer 2013
  • Manifold Mirrors: The Crossing Paths of the Arts and Mathematics, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013.
  • with D.-X. Zhou: Learning Theory: An Approximation Theory Viewpoint, Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • with Lenore Blum , Michael Shub , Stephen Smale: Complexity and Real Computation, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998.
  • with J. Castro, X. Messeguer, A. Rubio, Ll. Solano, B. Valles: Curso de Programación, McGraw-Hill, Madrid, 1993.
  • with Stephen Smale: On the mathematical foundations of learning, Bulletin AMS, Volume 39, 2002, pp. 1-49
  • with Bürgisser: On a Problem Posed by Steve Smale, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 174, 2011, pp. 1785--1836

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sarah Lazarus: My life: Felipe Cucker . In: South China Morning Post . Hong Kong October 6, 2013 ( scmp.com [accessed April 19, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Felipe CUCKER. In: CityU Scholars | A Research Hub of Excellence. CityU Hong Kong, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Felipe Cucker in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  4. ↑ Felipe Cucker. In: Einstein Visiting Fellows. Einstein Foundation Berlin, accessed on April 19, 2018 (English).
  5. ^ Fellowships offered by new Einstein Visiting Fellow. Berlin Mathematical School, accessed on April 19, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Cucker, Felipe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cucker Farkas, Juan Felipe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo