Przemysław Prusinkiewicz
Mathematician, Author
1952 –
Who is Przemysław Prusinkiewicz?
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz is a Polish computer scientist who advanced the idea that Fibonacci numbers in nature can be in part understood as the expression of certain algebraic constraints on free groups, specifically as certain Lindenmayer grammars. Prusinkiewicz's main work is on the modeling of plant growth through such grammars.
Prusinkiewicz received his PhD from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1978, and is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. Prusinkiewicz received the 1997 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his work.
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- Born
- 1952
- Nationality
- Poland
- Profession
- Education
- Warsaw University of Technology
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on July 23, 2013
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