Edward Belaga

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Edward Grigorievich Belaga (also Eduard Belaga) (born 22 December 1939) is a Russian mathematician.

Born in Kiev, Belaga received his Ph.D. in mathematics, in the field of ordinary differential equations, from Moscow University in 1965. He is one of the pioneers of algebraic complexity theory and is interested in mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, number theory, topological methods of image treatement, quantum computations, and mathematical methods of molecular biology. He was active in the study of the Four-colour problem, and is currently working on the Collatz problem. At present (2006) he is a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Mathematical Research, of the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg.

[edit] Selected publications

Belaga, Edward and Mignotte, Maurice (2006) : "Walking Cautiously into the Collatz Wilderness : Algorithmically, Number-Theoretically, Randomly", to appear in the Proceedings of Mathinfo06, Nancy, Strasbourg 18–22,2006.
Belaga, Edward and Mignotte, Maurice (2006) "The Collatz Problem and Its Generalizations: Experimental Data. Table 1. Primitive Cycles of (3n+d)-mappings" Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée de Strasbourg, Strasbourg.
Belaga, Edward G.(2003) "Effective polynomial upper bounds to perigees and numbers of (3x+d)-cycles of a given oddlength" Acta Arithmetica 106(2): pp. 197–206;
Belaga, Edward G.(2003) "Mod 3 arithmetic on triangulated Riemann surfaces", Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 263, Issue 1–2 (July 2001).
Belaga, Edward G.(2000) "Mathematical Infinity, Its Inventors, Discoverers, Detractors, Defenders, Masters, Victims, Users, and Spectators",Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée de Strasbourg, Strasbourg.
Belaga, Edward (2000) "Post-Hilbertian Programme and Its Post-Gödelian Stumbling Block. II Logical, Phenomenological, and Philosophical Limits of the Set-Theoretical Quest for Mathematical Infinity" in ELSS 2000 European Congress of the Association for Symbolic Logic, Paris;
Belaga, Edward (1999) "Cobordism as a Basic Topological Paradigm of Virtual Computer Animation", Proceedings of the Las Vegas Conference on the Treatment of images, July 1999.
Belaga, Edward G. (1989) "Through the mincing machine with a Boolean layer cake. Nonstandard computations over Boolean circuits in the lower-bounds-to-circuit-size complexity proving" Acta Informatica 26(4): pp. 381–407;
Belaga, Edward (1977) "On analysis of protoschemes" in Fundamentals of Computation Theory pp. 361–366. (Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 56) Springer, Berlin.
Belaga, Edward (1977) Mashiny Tyuringa i rekursivnye funktsii [Turing machines and recursive functions] Mir, Moscow.