Derrick Henry Lehmer

Details

Instance of

human

Born

23 February 1905

Died

22 May 1991

Place of birth

Berkeley

Place of death

Berkeley

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Derrick, Henry

Family name

Lehmer

Father

Derrick Norman Lehmer

Spouse

Emma Lehmer

Field of work

number theory

Occupation

mathematician, university teacher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship

academic thesis

An Extended Theory of Lucas' Functions

archives at

Bancroft Library

doctoral advisor

Jacob Tamarkin

doctoral student

Peter J. Weinberger, Tom M. Apostol, Ronald Graham, Harold Stark, Donald Dines Wall, John Brillhart, David Singmaster, Jayanthi Chidambaraswamy, Donald Marvin Adelman, Henry Ludwig Alder, William Haddock Simons, Nand Kishore

educated at

Brown University, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley

employer

University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Lehigh University

Erdős number

2

name

Dick Lehmer

notable work

Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test, Lucas primality test, Lucas–Lehmer primality test, Meissel–Lehmer algorithm, Lehmer–Schur algorithm, Lehmer's GCD algorithm, Lehmer matrix, Lehmer sieve, Lehmer code, Lehmer's conjecture, Lehmer number, Lehmer mean

student

Tom M. Apostol

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