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Welcome on my webpage. I am a theoretical physicist at Otto-von-Guericke University. I am also external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Recent updates: paper: Asymptotics of Lagged Fibonacci Sequences radio interview: Star of Betlehem, aired Dec 12 on MDR. mp3 (German) lecture notes: Random Number Generators: A Survival Guide for Large Scale Simulations book review: On the Back of an Envelope Science 321, 1160 (2008) paper: Brachistochrones with loose ends European J. Physics 29 1191 (2008) book review: Connecting the Dots Science 320, 181 (2008) paper: Analysis of the Karmarkar-Karp Differencing Algorithm Eur. J. Physics B 65, 131 (2008) new book (with Cris Moore): Nature of Computation, coming out soon Most visited: Computational complexity for physicists TSP algorithms in action