Grigori Tseitin

Grigori Samuilovitsch Tseitin
Born(1936-11-15)November 15, 1936
Leningrad, USSR
DiedAugust 27, 2022(2022-08-27) (aged 85)
Campbell, Ca, USA
Known forTseitin transformation
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Computer science
Thesis Algorithmic Operators on Constructive Complete Separable Metric Spaces  (1960)
Doctoral advisorAndrei Andreevich Markov

Grigori Samuilovitsch Tseitin (Russian: Григорий Самуилович Цейтин, born November 15, 1936 in Leningrad, USSR, deceased August 27, 2022 in Campbell, CA, USA) was a Russian mathematician and computer scientist, who moved to the United States in 1999. He is best known for Tseitin transformation used in SAT solvers, Tseitin tautologies used in the proof complexity theory, and for his work on Algol 68.