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Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds

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Freivalds in June 2009.

Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds (10 November 1942 – 4 January 2016) was a Latvian computer scientist and mathematician. He was a member of Latvian Academy of Sciences from 1992. He discovered Freivalds' algorithm for checking the correctness of matrix products. He also taught at the University of Latvia with students including Daina Taimina and Andris Ambainis. He was born in Cesvaine and studied at Moscow State University (MSU).

Freivalds died from a heart attack[1] on 4 January 2016 in Riga, aged 73.[2]

References

  1. ^ Fortnow, Lance (6 January 2016). "Rūsiņš Freivalds (1942-2016)". Computational Complexity. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Mūžībā aizgājis profesors Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds". delfi.lv (in Latvian). 4 January 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2016.