Alexander Kronrod
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Aleksandr (Alexander) Semenovich Kronrod (Russian Александр Семёнович Кронрод) (October 22, 1921 – October 6, 1986) was a Russian mathematician and computer scientist. He is most famous for the Gauss-Kronrod quadrature.
Kronrod was born in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow State University, where he also did his early mathematical work. Twice he received the first prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society. He played an important role in building the first major Russian computer, Relay Computer RVM-1. He had a profound interest in Artificial Intelligence, and is well known for his quote on the future of AI where he said that "Chess is the Drosophila of Artificial Intelligence." This quote graces the top of the AAAI Games/Chess page. Later in his life, his interests switched to economics and medicine.
Kronrod is the author of several well known books, including "Nodes and weights of quadrature formulas. Sixteen-place tables" and "Conversations on Programming".
Kronrod's Ph.D. advisor was Nikolai Luzin. Yevgeniy Landis was among his students and early collaborators.
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- E.M. Landis, I.M. Yaglom, Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod, Russian Math. Surveys 56 (2001), 993–1007.
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