Mathematician:Robert Baillie
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With M.A. Penk, achieved the full factorisation of Mersenne number $M_{257}$.
- Baillie-PSW Primality Test (with Carl Bernard Pomerance, John Lewis Selfridge and Samuel Standfield Wagstaff Jr.)
Author of:
- October 1980: Lucas Pseudoprimes (Math. Comp. Vol. 35, no. 152: pp. 1391 – 1417) (with Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.) www.jstor.org/stable/2006406
- Jul. 1981: The Problem of Sierpiński Concerning $k \cdot 2^n + 1$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 37, no. 155: pp. 229 – 231) (with G. Cormack and H.C. Williams) www.jstor.org/stable/2007516