Manuel Blum

Manuel Blum is a renowned computer scientist, best known for his contributions to computational complexity theory and algorithms. Born on April 26, 1938, in Brazil, Blum has had a significant impact on the field of computer science, particularly through his work on complexity classes and cryptography. He is famous for developing the Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator and for his work on the theory of NP-completeness.