Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba

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Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba (January 31, 1937 - Moscow, September 28, 2008) was a Russian mathematician, who authored the first fast multiplication method: the Karatsuba algorithm, a fast procedure for multiplying large numbers.

From 1944-1954, Anatolii Karatsuba studied at the high school â„– 6 for boys of the city of Grozny and completed his studies with a silver medal.

Already in his early years he showed exceptional talents in mathematics, being a young student he solved problems that were given to the students of the last years at school as a challenge.

In 1959, he graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics.

In 1962 he got his PhD degree Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, thesis «Rational trigonometric sums of special kind and their applications» (PhD supervisor N.M.Korobov), and started to work at the department of Mathematics and Mechanics of MSU.