Matthew Cook

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Matthew Cook

Mathematics

#1041

World Rank

#1780

Historical Rank

#452

USA Rank

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Matthew Cook's Degrees

• PhD Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
• Masters Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
• Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley

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Why Is Matthew Cook Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Matthew Cook is a mathematician and computer scientist who is best known for having proved Stephen Wolfram's conjecture that the Rule 110 cellular automaton is Turing-complete. Biography Cook was born in Morgantown, West Virginia and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois and the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program. In 1987, Cook qualified as a member of the six-person US team to the International Mathematical Olympiad and won a bronze medal. In 1990, Cook went to work for Wolfram Research, makers of the computer algebra system Mathematica. He did his doctoral work in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech from 1999 to 2005. He is now at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at Zurich in Switzerland.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Matthew Cook?

Matthew Cook is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• California Institute of Technology