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


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