The Story of Shor’s Algorithm, Straight From the Source

The Story of Shor’s Algorithm, Straight From the Source

Though Shor’s Algorithm is widely known, the story of how it was discovered isn’t. Speaking from MIT at the 40th Anniversary of the Physics of Computation Conference, Peter Shor recounts his journey from young mathematician to Ph.D student, and how he devised one of the most famous algorithms in quantum computing.