Andrew Odlyzko is a mathematician who is the head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center.

In the field of mathematics he has published extensively on analytic number theory, computational number theory, cryptography, algorithms and computational complexity, combinatorics, probability, and error-correcting codes. In the early 1970s, he was a co-author (with D. Kahaner and G.-C. Rota) of one of the founding papers of the modern umbral calculus. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.^[1] In 1985 he and Herman J.J. te Riele disproved the Mertens conjecture.

More recently, he has worked on communication networks, electronic publishing, economics of security and electronic commerce.

In the paper "Content is Not King", published in First Monday in January 2001, he argues that

1. the entertainment industry is a small industry compared with other industries, notably the telecommunications industry;
2. people are more interested in communication than entertainment;
3. and therefore that entertainment "content" is not the killer app for the Internet.

See also

• Odlyzko-Schönhage algorithm
• Digital media
• Metcalfe's law
• Binomial type
• Reed's law

References

1. ↑

External links

• Andrew Odlyzko: Home Page
• Digital Technology Center at the University of Minnesota
• Tragic loss or good riddance? The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals
• Content is Not King

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