Andrei Toom

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. He was arrested in Boa Viagem, Recife, Brazil, in 2005 following allegations of sexual abuse involving a 16-year-old. He was later acquitted.

Toom was a student of Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro. His father was the Russian-Estonian poet Leon Toom (ru).

At the age of 80, Toom died of prolonged illness on September 29th, 2022, in Queens, New York.

At his time of death, he had 2 children (1 late), and 1 grandchild.