- Yury Yershov
Yuri L. Ershov or Yershov (Юрий Леонидович Ершов, born
January 5 ,1940 ) is aRussia nmathematician . He was born inNovosibirsk .It has been widely reported that "In 1955 he developed together with
L. N. Korolev ,L.D. Panova ,V.D. Poderiugin andV.M. Kurochkin one of the firstprogramming language s called ΠΠ for theBESM computer ." This is incorrect, the contributor to that project with that surname was the late Andrei P. Ershov; Yuri L. Ershov was 15 when that work was done. Yuri L. Ershov is Editor in Chief of the Siberian Mathematics Journal and an editor of the Russian journal Algebra y Logika (Algebra and Logic). His Ph.D. thesis, "On Decidabiliity of Elementary Theories," advisor Anatolij Mal'tsev, was accepted by the Novosibirsk State University in 1963.References
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