On: Matrix multiplication in O(n^2.373)

[dbbo]

Context: fair point. I can't say I'm familiar with Aaronson, however (of course I studied math and not CS).

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"Well-known" in a particular field doesn't necessarily mean "household name"... do you know who Tim Gowers is, for example?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Aaronson

A lot of people might know him from http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html, which is the article about that topic.

edit: Okay, rereading this article I recovered an insight that leads to a truer reason Aaronson's worth linking to. It is not that he's a famous professor (he is) so much that he is, in general, a great expositor. Read that big-number article and tell me he's not.