ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Derrick Henry Lehmer
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Derrick Henry ("Dick") Lehmer was an American mathematician active mainly in the field of number theory.
Most famous for designing the Lucas-Lehmer Test for determining the primality of Mersenne numbers.
The son of Derrick Norman Lehmer, and married to Emma Lehmer, née Trotskaia.
One of the victims of the McCarthy witch-hunt.
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Nationality
American
History
- Born: February 23, 1905
- Died: May 22, 1991
Theorems and Definitions
- Lucas-Lehmer Test (with Édouard Lucas)
- Lehmer-Schur Algorithm (with Issai Schur)
Books and Papers
- 1930: An Extended Theory of Lucas' Functions (PhD thesis)
- 1941: On the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem (with Emma Lehmer)
Notable Quotes
- "General rules for programming have been discovered. Most of them have been used in the Kansas City freight yards for a long time."
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References
- ↑ Quoted at the end of Section 2.6 of Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (1968).
