Mathematician:Wilfrid Keller
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Mathematician
German mathematician best known for his activity in number theory, including the hunt for titanic primes.
Nationality
German
History
- Born: 1937: Born in Wetzlar, Germany. Moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1943−1954: Attended primary and secondary school in Buenos Aires.
- 1955−1962: Studied mathematics at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires.
- 1962: Obtained degree of Licenciado en Ciencias Matemáticas.
- 1963: Returned to Germany, settled in Hamburg.
- 1963−1969: Fellowship of Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
- 1963−1970: Studied numerical mathematics and economics at Universität Hamburg.
- 1970: Obtained degree of Doctor rerum naturalium.
- 1970−1998: Member of staff of Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg.
- 1999: Retired from public service.
Publications
- 1970: Asymptotische Aussagen und Fehlerabschätzungen für eine Klasse linearer Integro-Differential-Differenzengleichungen als Folge von Monotonieeigenschaften gewöhnlicher Anfangswertaufgaben (PhD thesis)
- Oct. 1995: New Cullen Primes (Math. Comp. Vol. 64, no. 212: pp. 1733 – 1741) www.jstor.org/stable/2153382