Peter Shor Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Peter Shor is a mathematician whose research includes quantum computing, quantum information theory, algorithms and computational geometry.[ref] His quantum algorithms for integer factorization and discrete logarithms require a number of steps polynomial in the number of input digits. They made the distinction between classical and quantum computational resources concrete for problems used in cryptography.[ref]
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