From logic to theoretical computer science

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The author describes his career in the Soviet Union, mostly up to around 1970. He records his training in the Ukraine, contacts in Moscow with both mathematicians (especially with A. N. Kolmogorov) and logicians (especially with S. A. Yanovskaya), and employment in Penza and then Novosibirsk. Many of the social circumstances and relationships recorded are little known in the West. He also relates his intellectual progress. Broadly speaking, he passed from descriptive set theory through proof theory and recursion to computational complexity and finite automata. He gives some attention to the ``perebor (or brute force) algorithms, with which he has been especially associated. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0913.00024].











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