Andrei Leonovich Toom (in Russian: Андрей Леонович Тоом), also known as André Toom, (1942 in Tashkent, Soviet Union – 2022 in New York, USA) was a 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 prolonged illness in New York, September 2022.

Andrei Toom in 2004

Toom was a student of Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.

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