Mathematician:Derrick Norman Lehmer

Mathematician

American mathematician active mainly in the field of number theory.

The father of Derrick Henry ("Dick") Lehmer.

He was also a gifted musician, writer and composer.

Factorised Jevons' number.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 27 July 1867, Somerset, Indiana, USA
• Died: 8 September 1938, Berkeley, California, USA

Publications

• 1903: A Theorem in the Theory of Numbers (read before the San Francisco Section of the American Mathematical Society, Dec. 19, 1903)
• 1909: Factor table for the first ten millions containing the smallest factor of every number not divisible by 2, 3, 5, or 7 between the limits 0 and 10017000
• 1914: List of prime numbers from 1 to 10006721
• 1917: An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry

• 1923: On the Multiplication of Large Numbers (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 30: pp. 67 – 68)  www.jstor.org/stable/2298483

• 1929: Factor Stencils (on which he worked with Dick Lehmer)
• 1936: The Crystal Gazers (unpublished play)

Operas

• 1933: The Harvest
• 1935: The Necklace of the Sun : A Mayan Drama

Song Collections

• 1924: Seven Indian Songs from the Yosemite Valley
• 1927: Down the stream and other Indian songs
• 1930: Indian camp-fire songs
• 1931: Indian songs from the Northland
• 1931: Fingers of the sun and other Indian songs from the Sierra slopes
• 1932: Songs from the Mesas
• 1932: Songs from the Tundras
• 1937: The Ballad of San Francisco Bay
• 1937: Five Little songs

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Derrick Norman Lehmer": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence