Mathematician:Hendrik Willem Lenstra Jr.
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Mathematician
Dutch mathematician working principally in computational number theory.
Well known as the discoverer of the elliptic curve factorization method.
Co-discoverer of the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovász Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithm.
The Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics, a set of precise conjectures about the structure of class groups of quadratic fields, is named after him.
Brother of Jan Karel Lenstra, Andries Johannes Lenstra and Arjen Klaas Lenstra.
Nationality
Dutch
History
- Born: 16 April 1949 in Zaandam
Theorems and Definitions
- Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovász Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithm (with Arjen Klaas Lenstra and László Lovász)
- Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics (with Henri Cohen)
- Prime Decomposition of 9th Fermat Number (with Arjen Klaas Lenstra, Mark Steven Manasse and John Michael Pollard)
Publications
- Jul. 1993: The Factorization of the Ninth Fermat Number (Math. Comp. Vol. 61, no. 203: pp. 319 – 349) (with A.K. Lenstra, M.S. Manasse and J.M. Pollard) www.jstor.org/stable/2152957