Andrei Toom

Andrei Leonovich Toom (in Russian: Андрей Леонович Тоом), also known as André Toom, (1942 Tashkent, Soviet Union - 2022 Queens, New York City) was a Russian mathematician known for the Toom–Cook algorithm and Toom's rule. Toom was a retired professor of the statistics department at Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Toom died of unknown causes at his apartment in Flushing, Queens, NYC.

Andrei Toom in 2014

Toom was a student of Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.