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Fig. 7.9 Evolution of the autowave helical structure in the semiconductor reaction-diffusion
scheme
Fig. 7.10 Determination of the Voronoi diagram by the multilayer semiconductor reaction-
diffusion device (a,
upper level
; b,
lower level
)
и
наконец
последнее
что оставалось
для того
чтобы закончить во время
,
,
,
,
,
,
была математика
”—he wrote later. After graduating he started to work as a
programmer in a bank and continued his search. He attempted again to find himself
in medicine and then in physics, while still working in the bank. Afterwards, he
returned to Berkeley, where he prepared and defended a thesis on the theoretical
aspects of computational complexity. Immediately thereafter he was appointed
assistant professor of mathematics at MIT.
At this time, his colleagues at MIT—Ronald Rivest and Adi Shamir—worked on
the problem of information security. They devised a coding system, the so-called
key, which is a mathematical formula to encrypt and decrypt data. They engaged
Adleman in this project. As a result, they created an encryption system called RAS
system, according to the first letters of their names. It brought them fame and,
consequently, money.
Despite the excellent conditions of work at MIT, in 1980 Adleman returned to
the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. It was there that he felt the
inclination at first to immunology and then to molecular biology, whose unsolved
problems, in his view, “
отличались такой же красотой
,
как и математические
.”
