Viktor T. Toth
Viktor T. Toth is
a software developer and author of
Visual C++ Unleashed and other
computer books. He is also author of over two dozen
scientific papers on topics in
theoretical physics.
Viktor received his first software development contract in 1979: His
task
was
to simulate the take-off distance of TU-154 aircraft with engine failure
at Budapest airport under various weather conditions, to compute tables
of maximum take-off weight. Since then, he has worked on many software
projects and is thoroughly familiar with the entire software
development life cycle.
He authored or co-authored studies
for large
software projects (for instance, he was one of the authors of the
Automation Master Plan of the Canadian Patent Office in 1988); he
designed and developed the Windows version of Industry Canada’s
Integrated Spectrum Observation Centre, with over 120,000 lines of C++
code; and he created NORTEC’s HELP (Humidification, Engineering and
Loadsizing Program), an application for professional engineers and
salespersons dealing with large-scale building humidification
systems.
He also wrote several books on the C++ programming language and the Linux
operating system. As part of his scientific research, he independently
developed a precision orbit determination program used to analyze the
anomalous trajectory of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. He is also
one of the maintainers of
Maxima, the preeminent open source computer
algebra system.
Viktor is just as competent with modern software development
technologies as
with ancient systems. He routinely switches between developing an
interactive app for his Android smartphone and maintaining 30-year-old
legacy LISP code for Maxima. He is familiar with formal software
project
management and development methodologies. Last but not least, he also
has experience designing and debugging hardware.
His papers include
General relativistic observables of the GRAIL mission,
Numerical simulation code for self-gravitating Bose-Einstein
condensates,
Applying MOG to lensing: Einstein rings, Abell 520, and the Bullet
Cluster,
Support for the thermal origin of the Pioneer anomaly,
Accelerating relativistic reference frames in Minkowski
space-time,
Support for temporally varying behavior of the Pioneer anomaly from
the
extended Pioneer 10 and 11 Doppler data sets, and
Cosmological observations in a modified theory of gravity
(MOG).
Read
Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly.
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