Paul Zimmermann
Paul Zimmermann (born November 13, 1964) is a French computational mathematician, working at INRIA.
His interests include asymptotically fast arithmetic—he wrote a book[1] on algorithms for computer arithmetic with Richard Brent. He has developed some of the fastest available code for manipulating polynomials over GF(2),[2] and for calculating hypergeometric constants to billions of decimal places.[3] He is associated with the CARAMEL project to develop efficient arithmetic, in a general context and in particular in the context of algebraic curves of small genus; arithmetic on polynomials of very large degree turns out to be useful in algorithms for point-counting on such curves. He is also interested in computational number theory. In particular, he has contributed to some of the record computations in integer factorisation [4] and discrete logarithm.[5]
He has been an active developer of the GMP-ECM implementation of the elliptic curve method for integer factorisation and of MPFR, an arbitrary precision floating point library with correct rounding.
In a 2014 blog post,[6] Zimmerman said that he would refuse invitations to review papers submitted to gold (author-pays) open access and hybrid open access journals, because he disagrees with the publication mechanism.
References
- ↑ P. Zimmermann; R.Brent. "Modern Computer Arithmetic".
- ↑ Paul Zimmermann; Richard P. Brent; Pierrick Gaudry; Emmanuel Thomé (2008). Poorten, Alfred J.; Stein, Andreas, eds. "Faster Multiplication in GF(2)[x]". Proceedings of ANTS-VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 5011: 153–166. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-79456-1. ISBN 978-3-540-79455-4.
- ↑ Paul Zimmermann; Howard Cheng; Guillaume Hanrot; Emmanuel Thomé; Eugene Zima (2007). C W Brown, ed. Time- and Space-Efficient Evaluation of Some Hypergeometric Constants. Proceedings of International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) 2007. pp. 85–91.
- ↑ Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2010/006
- ↑ Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2013/197
- ↑ P. Zimmermann. "Why I refuse to review papers submitted to open-access and hybrid journals?".
- Flajolet, Philippe; Zimmerman, Paul; Van Cutsem, Bernard (1994). "A calculus for the random generation of labelled combinatorial structures". Theoretical Computer Science. 132 (1): 1–35. doi:10.1016/0304-3975(94)90226-7. MR 1290534.