Contributor biographical information for Discovering mathematics with Magma : reducing the abstract to the concrete / Wieb Bosma, John Cannon (eds.) .
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d104>Cannon:
1) Principal designer of the Magma system
2) Extensive contributions to the field of group theory algorithms
3) Awards:
1993 CSIRO Medal (for Computer Algebra)
2001 ATSE Clunies Ross Award (for Cryptography and Computer Algebra)
2006 Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering Applied to Computer Algebra.
Bosma: co-designer of Magma, active in computational number theory and computer algebra
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Algebra -- Data processing.