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2 unusual facts about Leslie Lamport


Buridan's ass

The situation of Buridan's ass was given a mathematical basis in a 1984 paper by American computer scientist Leslie Lamport, in which Lamport presents an argument that, given certain assumptions about continuity in a simple mathematical model of the Buridan's ass problem, there will always be some starting conditions under which the ass will starve to death, no matter what strategy it takes.

Leslie Lamport

Lamport signature – The Lamport one-time signature scheme is a method for constructing a digital signature.


Oren Patashnik

In 1985, Patashnik created the bibliography-system, BibTeX, in collaboration with Leslie Lamport, the creator of LaTeX.


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