Abraham Sinkov
Abraham Sinkov | |
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| Born | August 22, 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 19, 1998 (aged 90) Maricopa, Arizona, U.S. |
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| Fields | Cryptography, Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Families of Groups Generated by Two Operators of the Same Order (1933) |
| Doctoral advisor | Francis Edgar Johnston |
Abraham Sinkov (August 22, 1907 – January 19, 1998) was a US cryptanalyst. An early employee of the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service, he held several leadership positions during World War II, transitioning to the new National Security Agency after the war, where he became a deputy director. After retiring in 1962, he taught mathematics at Arizona State University.